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Heartland Patriot wrote:

03Lightningrocks wrote:There is a fine line between self defense and revenge. A person socks you and walks off, do you blast him in the back, "Joe Horn" style? I am not sure why anyone would just walk up and hit me and walk off, but I guess it could happen. Am I allowed to hit him back if he is leaving or would that be considered revenge?

I am thinking if someone socks you or me, they are probably going to continue the attack with some follow up blows. In this case, I think it would be self defense to stop them with your weapon, especially if they had a size/age advantage.

In England for some years (and may still be this way), there was a trend for "youths" to engage in something called "happy slapping". It involved some of these miscreants getting tanked up on alcohol, going out onto a busy sidewalk, and slapping (punching) some random stranger (who looked like an easy target) in the side of the head, usually with as much force as could be mustered by the assailant. Some of my former troops, who overnighted in England while they were transiting to the desert for a deployment, witnessed and taped one of these incidents some years ago. It was completely unprovoked; it happened because the UK has laws that work against the person who is attacked by making their legal ability to defend themselves EXTREMELY narrow. While none of us want our country to become the "Wild West" that the propagandist media is always crying about, neither should we want to see our nation become like the UK, where legal self-defense is a mere dream.