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well-deserved butt-kicking he was getting.
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I am not entirely sure about the well deserved part.
It looks like he punched the driver, but what if he didn't?
They were all over him pretty viciously. They only stopped when the woman came out with the gun. She shouldn't have given it to the guy, he was certainly going to be in a worked up state at this point. She should have just run them off to end the fight.
He was wrong in firing it but after the way they jumped on him it would be hard to see him use any restraint. Even if he did hit the driver, their response was over the top because he didn't continue to attack him.
Being the aggressor and hitting someone certainly means he is guilty of Battery, but it isn't an open door to retaliate in this manner. It's only self defense if the attack continues, it didn't. Two wrongs ....
If they just angered him, that's one thing, if they actually nearly caused a terrible accident, he wasn't wrong to follow and talk with them about it when they finally stopped. Foolish perhaps, but not wrong.
Anyway ... even with video it isn't that easy to say more then he shouldn't have pulled that trigger.