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Originally Posted by raveneye
I agree with this (I'm in bars or clubs at closing at least a couple nights a week) and would like to point out that in Miami there is another very large and volatile source of ambiguity: that is the language barrier between Spanish and English combatants.
Picture a street corner at 3AM. Someone (drunk) is gesticulating angrily and yelling at you in a foreign language. He's surrounded by 5 of his menacingly drunk friends.
What do you do? What should you be allowed to do? What should you be expected to do?
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A common sense approach would be to walk on the other side of the street or the other side of the block. If someone goes out looking for trouble then they will certainly get what they ask for. If a person makes common sense decisions to avoid the situation and it STILL happens, thats what this law is for. No law abiding person should have to continue to run AFTER they've made the attempt at conflict avoidance in order to defend themselves or family.
On the flip side of this, picture you and your family leaving some sort of dinner function and the same group of people start eyeing your 14 year old daughter and that pretty wife you have with you.
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