After You Obtain CCW Permit, Fighting Is The Last Thing On Your Mind.
In CA, which is a heavily regulated state when it comes to guns, if you strike me
across the face with a pool stick, I have every right to believe you are going to
escalate matters and I can draw my weapon to defend myself. Remember that
under the law, if I believe the threat to be real, I am allowed to protect myself from
further attack and likely grevious bodily injury. He might kick me or attack me again
and keep in mind that the mere act of tossing the cue ball was stupid and annoying
but no one was injured or was injured by that action. But hitting the person with a cue
stick with the intent to do harm is felonious assault. Tossing the cue ball wasn’t a crime.
If that was me, yes, I would pull my gun if anyone hits me in the face with a cue stick. I
am not going to bother asking questions until I control the situation, not my assailant.
At the same time, I’d have the police summoned. If my assailant tries to leave, let him.
However, I would never start the fight to begin with because it is my responsibility to
avoid confrontations but when you literally and figuratively get hit right in the face with
one, then you act accordingly to protect yourself. Again, go back to my original post.
Do not get in a fight with someone nowadays. Just try to walk away and leave it alone
sans any testosterone. You never really know how sane the other person is to start with.
They might have the Coronavirus or might be violent or worse, armed and angry. So do
try to avoid getting into fights. I know I do & I feel confident too when I walk away because
the other guy doesn’t know how close he came to facing an armed citizen trained to defend.
Look, you can’t attack someone with a pool cue, or a broomstick, etc. striking them in the
face because you don’t like what they said or because they tossed the cue ball off the table.
That is escalating the matter using physical force and you can’t use becoming pissed off as
your defense or the other guy was a jerk. The guy using the cue stick broke the law whereas
the other guy broke the house rules for behaving like ass & that’s really a tremendous difference.