please re-read his original post. He said:
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on the left an empty space, then a car, the front of the car up against the wall of my building. ... I backpedal and run into the car next to me on the left...so Im trapped (really no place to go anyway but forward)...
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Duty to retreat or not: HE COULDN'T! This point should never have come up, since he stated from the beginning that he could not retreat.
End of discussion before it should have even been mentioned.
It really ticks me off when people pop off with opinions without bothering to read the original post.
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You're relatively new here, so probably haven't read much of WA's previous posts, and so don't know much about him, but if you had read the entire thread, you would have caught Dwight55s comment (post #21) that WA is
at least 30 years older than most streetfighting mugging perps of the type originally portrayed.
WA also stated in the first post, second paragraph ...
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he wasnt showing a weapon but he was huge and on something and while I feel I can handle myself (despite my advancing years, pot belly and wimpy size) . . . and was basically UNABLE to retreat (I was backed into a car)
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and, third paragraph
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... and despite of the fact that I look like a runty ungroomed rabbi, for some reason (or so I am told by my coworkers) I look either crazy or (as one guy told me) a "grandpa with an attitude"...
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So yeah, from the above two selections, WA is small ("runty") and older ("advancing years" and "grandpa"). (No offense intended, WA.)
Older = less able to flee. Smaller = less able to fight. Duty to retreat = discussed above.
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