[Jonty30]

That’s a defendable position, IMO.

It would also be defendable under Canadian law, because you are allowed to use proportional force to stop somebody from harming you.

[Hulka]

Oh, and back in the mid-60’s, my father was driving home from Walter-Reed Hospital and ran smack dab into a “race riot” in the streets.

The mob of ‘yuts” in the street started to attack and pound on his car (a Volkswagen Beetle) and he told me: “I just downshifted to 2nd and hit the gas. . .they bounced off the car and I was clear.”