True. Too bad they don't call it what it is, felony assault, upgraded with hate crime status.

 

+1000

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The answer to all of this is actually quite simple. People have taken a very simple problem and tried to dissect it. While doing so, they have complicated it and lost sight of looking at it as a simple problem and answer. Violence is a simple form of predation. It happens every day in the animal kingdom (which we are technically a part of), and nature has shown how it works, and also how to deal with it.

 

Look no further than the water buffalo of Africa or the poison dart frogs of South America. When a member of the herd of buffalo are violated by predation, they group together and use a show of force to drive away the attacker. The attacker never looks for the leader of the herd, but instead seeks out the weakest member. However, the herd groups together and protects its weakest. One example. Then, there's the dart frogs. They just hang out and look all colorful, and don't really bother anyone. However, if a predator tries to violate them, they secrete one of the most toxic substances that the world knows and simply kills the predator through poisoning. That's why they don't really have predators.

 

So, what's the lesson in all of this? It's actually simple. Violation and predation is part of the nature of any living being to an extent. The only deterrent to such is an equal show of threat. Not only is it legal and right to use a threat to protect one's self and other members of society, it should be made a mandated part of everyone's life. Instead of looking at post-event remedies, which never work, people should look at what does really work in the natural world. Animals use it every day for survival, and we as people should be no different.

 

It's really simple. If more people had the means at their disposal to deter violence before it happens, or as it happens, there would be a whole lot less of it. Under the knockout scenario, how many of these punks would actually follow through with it if they truly believed that they would be shot, or beaten down by a mob of normal people protecting each other from violence? I already know the answer.

 

The show of force, and the display of consequence for unlawful acts is the best deterrent to violence that there is. The animal kingdom already knows this. People think that they're so smart that they can outsmart the system. People have been proven wrong yet again. Nature wins.

 

Someone who gets it. ^^^^^

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The answer to all of this is actually quite simple. People have taken a very simple problem and tried to dissect it. While doing so, they have complicated it and lost sight of looking at it as a simple problem and answer. Violence is a simple form of predation. It happens every day in the animal kingdom (which we are technically a part of), and nature has shown how it works, and also how to deal with it.

 

Look no further than the water buffalo of Africa or the poison dart frogs of South America. When a member of the herd of buffalo are violated by predation, they group together and use a show of force to drive away the attacker. The attacker never looks for the leader of the herd, but instead seeks out the weakest member. However, the herd groups together and protects its weakest. One example. Then, there's the dart frogs. They just hang out and look all colorful, and don't really bother anyone. However, if a predator tries to violate them, they secrete one of the most toxic substances that the world knows and simply kills the predator through poisoning. That's why they don't really have predators.

 

So, what's the lesson in all of this? It's actually simple. Violation and predation is part of the nature of any living being to an extent. The only deterrent to such is an equal show of threat. Not only is it legal and right to use a threat to protect one's self and other members of society, it should be made a mandated part of everyone's life. Instead of looking at post-event remedies, which never work, people should look at what does really work in the natural world. Animals use it every day for survival, and we as people should be no different.

 

It's really simple. If more people had the means at their disposal to deter violence before it happens, or as it happens, there would be a whole lot less of it. Under the knockout scenario, how many of these punks would actually follow through with it if they truly believed that they would be shot, or beaten down by a mob of normal people protecting each other from violence? I already know the answer.

 

The show of force, and the display of consequence for unlawful acts is the best deterrent to violence that there is. The animal kingdom already knows this. People think that they're so smart that they can outsmart the system. People have been proven wrong yet again. Nature wins.

 

Since we're resuming our place in the animal kingdom, I guess this means it's back to sex for procreational purposes only.

 

Thanks, Dr. Buzzkill.

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If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.
- Bob Marley