may have been playing the so-called “knockout game” at the time of the wanton attack.
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The way the law etc is interpreted, the ‘Knockout Game’ may be as close to the perfect crime as one can get.
It is usually 4 or so against a single target.
When the 4 approaching, no matter how menancing they may appear, there is ‘nothing’ one can do in self defense.
So you can’t ‘shoot’ them for what YOU think is intent.
Once they hit ‘you’ and keep walking away, the situation is supposedly ‘ended’ so you CAN’T shoot then either.
This particular incident was in MD where you can’t even THINK of carrying, permits few and far between so most decent folks are of no help.
THAT said, I would recommend that I not be the ‘target’ as - even though I am aware of the above - I would imagine the last thing you thought when leaving the house in the morning was you ‘ain’t coming home tonight’.
When I was robbed by 2 hispanic yutes at gunpoint who repeated called me Nigger, the Chinese woman I spoke with later (to get a replacement drivers license) blamed me and said I shouldn’t have been out walking. Driver or cab or stay inside.
Good post. I never thought about the “perfect crime” aspect.
Trying to think of a solution.
Maybe, need to go to such events in groups not alone. But if that’s necessary, I should probably stay home.