General Discussion

You CAN confront an assailant if you don’t know who that assailant is—especially if you don’t know who that assailant is. If a bunch of armed masked thugs were to come after me and/or my family, I would hope to be in the presence of armed protection, police or private, who would not hesitate to use force to protect me and/or my family. If the assailants are armed and refuse to disarm and show ID, I would assume organized crime, and never advocate reticence in fighting back.

Pretty drastic, huh? I’m just not interested in hearing about how some of these lethal gorillas went too far some day and in their over-eager zeal choked some Latina grandmother to death because she couldn’t pull out her ID in time.

This really has to end sooner rather than later, because the laws governing self-defense leave plenty of room for it to end badly.