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K.O. Stradivarius

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15. And your point being?

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #11)

Mon Nov 25, 2013, 10:03 PM

Nov 2013

What does it matter if the assault on the victim in the first example was over before he knew what happened?

Just because it worked out badly for him, that still doesn't deny him, or anyone else, the right to take lethal defensive action on their assailants by any means available.

"The only way for an individual to stop that is for a gun or knife fancier to identify "a threat" at a distance. So how are you going to do that?"

"A distance"? Like the guy with the knife?

He might not have stopped it from happening, but he stopped a bad situation from becoming worse.

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More "knockout game" in the news - 6 “Knockout”-Style Attacks Hit The City [View all] K.O. Stradivarius Nov 2013 OP

Did this exist before the news started talking about it? NightWatcher Nov 2013 #1

Way before. n/t B2G Nov 2013 #2

In various forms... yes K.O. Stradivarius Nov 2013 #4

Maybe, maybe not... pipi_k Nov 2013 #5

There are hundresd of videos on YouTube going back years...of course it did snooper2 Nov 2013 #9

What is your solution, KO? Shoot first if a group of men approach if you don't like their looks. Hoyt Nov 2013 #3

Best approach would be police sting operations followed by RICO conspiracy geek tragedy Nov 2013 #6

Can't argue with that. Hoyt Nov 2013 #7

The right to self defense is never denied. K.O. Stradivarius Nov 2013 #8

Very different from situation you described in OP, where victim did not have Hoyt Nov 2013 #11

I'm somewhat skilled in martial arts and frankly your only defense is Katashi_itto Nov 2013 #14

And your point being? K.O. Stradivarius Nov 2013 #15

It's obvious how you'd identify a threat. I bet you love stand your ground laws. Hoyt Nov 2013 #17

Whatever K.O. Stradivarius Nov 2013 #19

Since when is New Haven called "The City"?! KamaAina Nov 2013 #10

They also hit a 68-year-old woman: jsr Nov 2013 #12

We need to be more concerned with wilding than this knockout game. Capt. Obvious Nov 2013 #13

It's a "phony panic" actually. I read that on DU. flvegan Nov 2013 #16

If it's true, false, exaggerated is immaterial. K.O. Stradivarius Nov 2013 #18