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Y'know, your replies are practically content free, while simultaneously not answering my original question. Let me put it baldly as possible, with no room for misunderstanding. If confronted with a similar mob, would you ready yourself to be able to draw your gun (what I'm thinking I would do), do something else, or do nothing? And if a beat down on you by the mob started, involving multiple people, would you endure it stoically, draw your gun and start blazing away, or...something else?

I am a 68 year old Vietnam ear vet, retired in 2012, 70% disabled. In the video in question (https://www.wnd.com/2020/08/blm-activis ... olidarity/), I do not see an articulable threat of death or serious bodily injury to me. Your mileage will vary.

Well, I did say "if it got physical". I agree it would be unwise to to start shooting just from people yelling at you. I am concerned about the best course of action right before the skateboards start to fly into your head, and right after.

"In case it turns physical," your pistol is still not a good option. While "production of a weapon" as a threat of deadly force can be legal (TPC 9.04) against mere force, what do you do if the threat fails?

If a mob of people crowded around me, screaming and threatening me, starts beating me, I think I'm reasonably going to fear death or serious bodily injury (I'm 66 and not as tough as I used to be). Would not deadly force be appropriate in response to this situation? Or should I count on the goodwill of the Communists, and just hope for a light beating? One thing's for sure, I'll go down fighting under a hailstorm of fists, bootheels and skateboards before I'll be coerced into making a gesture of support for any movement.

BLM protestors enter a restaurant and begins to taunt and get in the face of a young woman at a restaurant. He wants her to raise her fist and shout Black Lives Matter. She refuses

OK, she wasn't hurt, and that's good. And I don't figure anything like this is ever likely to happen in Texas...and that's good too. But if it happened to me, I'm not sure what the best strategy is. My first thought is to surreptitiously get my hand on my gun (under shirt, IWB) in case it turned physical. But I worry that it would further excite the Communists if this was noticed. What do y'all think is the right response to a situation like this?

philip964 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 15, 2020 1:10 pm
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaki ... ant-karma/

Best video you will see today. From Baltimore.

You will believe a man can fly.

One issue to consider. If someone smashed your window and started dragging you out of the car, a self defense case would be pretty easy to make against the person doing the dragging. Stomping the gas to the floor and running down people who were not actually threatening you might get a bit tricky.

Oh I dunno about that. There was the case of the guy who was menaced by some bikers in LA. He felt threatened and drove off, running over a couple three guys who had just been in front of him, not actively beating on the car. He got off no problem and a pretty good slug of the bikers got charged. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood ... ng_assault