Violence. I need serious advice, please.

[HopeHoops]

5. It sounds like he did the right thing, and it isn't just a guy thing.

When my eldest was just over 1, we were at the fireworks and some assholes were shooting shit into the sky above the crowd. Nobody (including security) did a damn thing about it. Finally, I got fed up and went down and bitched them out. They ambushed me on the way out, one of them in particular (too much testosterone, not enough brain cells). I had just handed my daughter to my wife when he cold-cocked me from the side, breaking my glasses. I lost my balance because I had a hiking backpack on. He got on top and started pounding me. I just stayed there until he wore himself out but he inexplicably left.

Unknown to me at the time, my wife had handed the kid off to another women, took our 1/2 gallon thermos (still mostly full), and smashed it over the asshole's head. The handle broke so she proceeded to jab him in the side of the head with the two pointed ends of the handle. At first I thought he left because there was a cop coming to investigate the scuffle, but that wasn't it at all.

When you're in the right, sometimes you just need to do what's necessary.

That sounds like exactly what he did, and he was definitely in the right.