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In reply to the discussion: Disturbing: 2 arrested in Eugene cookie shop assault over masks [View all]Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)One thing I've noticed is that these fascist cowards usually only pick on people they deem too defenseless to fight back.
But at least it had a sweet ending. Those two deserve jail time. This is nothing but a form of domestic terrorism and it needs to stop.
This is also why I highly recommend all shopkeepers have a bottle of pepper spray handy. Nothing shuts a bully up more than a face full of that stuff.
Oh, and as to your question as to whether she had a right to take a swing at them. She definitely has the right to tell them to leave, and the woman assaulted her by pushing her first. So yeah, at that point, it is a matter of self defense. But what she really should have done was just call the cops the minute they refused to leave. You never know who's carrying a weapon. Nothing's worth your life.