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Old August 25, 2011, 09:55 AM   #86
Baba Louie
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Question? Why were wagon trains so important back in the day? Survival of the fit via safety in numbers. You travel alone, you takes your chances with groups of marauding antagonists... or so history would have us believe. Same old, same old, updated via technology in the 21st century.
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...there is a whole chapter of the need to retreat and the use of lethal force. Should you retreat?
Another worthy read might be Richard Maxwell Brown's tome "No Duty To Retreat". While one might or might not have a Duty to Retreat based on state law, one of the quotes within Browns book is this...
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Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr - Brown v. United States, 256 U.S. 335, 343 (16 May 1921).
Which was part of his reasoning for a man to have a duty to defend self here and now. (tho perhaps this quote is taken out of context... never having read Brown v. US, I cannot say.)

Uplifted knife... disparity of force... hmmm. When the group monkey dance is up close and in your face... act. Better yet, avoid totally if one can, any group of monkeys dancing in your immediate area and/or travel in your own group.

In way of perhaps misguided proactive prevention, BART did this a week or two ago for similar reasons... much to the chagrin of all legal users. Ooooh were people upset!

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-200...stop-protests/

("group monkey dance" an apt term, taken from Rory Miller's Meditations on Violence)
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