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Originally Posted by Janey
wow. why is there a need to defend oneself? and to use such extreme means to do so? is there such open anarchy?
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A little story for my fellow Canadian Janey. A friend of mine who happens to be involved in martial arts got jumped some years ago outside the Eaton's Centre in Toronto by about 15 skinheads. They got his jacket and his shoes but not before he put a half a dozen in the hospital, the worst with a broken eye orbital and shattered jaw.
He was charged and convicted of 3 counts of aggravated assault causing bodily damage and placed on 5 years probation. He may have had the charges dropped if he showed "remorse" for his actions, but since he was the one attacked, he didn't buy into that silly notion. He told the judge if he didn't defend himself he might have ended up dead. In the end the judge treated the young offenders with kiddy gloves and sent them home with their parents to suburbia.
I asked my friend that if he had a gun when they attacked him, would he have used it. He said without a doubt. And I'd have done the same.
And if not a gun,...a baseball bat, stick, lead pipe anything for survival. But if that weren't available to me and I were beaten and lived,...I go back and even the score, one way or the other. Not very Canadian of me eh?