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Originally Posted by Quicksilver
I realize that as you say "there are people out there who will overreact to a traffic incident and will
follow someone and take the additional step of getting out of their car and threatening the other driver.
So the question is what would I do "if some crazed and enraged man who happens to be larger than
you is banging on your door, threatening to do all kinds of violent things to you,
maybe even trying to yank your door open?
It already has happened to me on more than one occasion.
As long as there's no gun involved what I have found is that
there are other measures to handle the situation without taking
a persons life.
IMO Taking someones life is just not an acceptable
answer when someone else is angry and there are other
reasonable options.
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I cannot disagree with you Barry. I agree that there should be alternatives to taking someone's life, even an attacker, and that usually starts with leaving the situation. But what if during the course of leaving the situation to avoid an escalation of the conflict you are stopped or unable to leave? Perhaps traffic does not permit an easy egress or the attacker himself blocks your escape. I just think there are situations that arise where the best of intentions can't help and even where it is the other person pushes you to extreme measures. I'm still not saying that lethal force should be the first option but to me, just sitting in my car while some dude comes at me with a baseball bat is not a situation I would sit there and take it with the hopes that he gets tired and goes away before he does harm to me or others.