Timothy Birdnow

When mobs attack:

Media Baffled by Motorists Who Refuse to be Dragged out of their cars and Mauled

When a mob surrounds your car and threatens your life you use what you have - in this case a quarter ton of steel and 200 horsepower.

Yet we treat folks like this guy who ran over a "protester" as the perpetrator rather than the victim.

Well, there is a legal maxim quod est necessarium est licitum, "That which is necessary is legal.” If your life is imperiled by someone you have a legal right to self-defense up to and including running over someone who blocks your path. The necessity argument is applicable; it applies when you do something you wouldn't normally do out of necessity. It's the reason why we do not prosecute someoone for crimes when they or their loved ones are being threatened with extreme harm. The maxim vim vi repellere licet is also applicable "It is lawful to repel violence with violence" and that dates back to Justinian.

But we are too cool for Justinian these days or anything remotely rational.

The Left has long used victimhood as a tool for empowerment and they use it with this doofus protesters. They are always hoping for violence, and then for violence in response so they can claim to be victims. It's been a tool of their for a couple of hundred years and particularly in the 20th century.

We need to support this guy, and anyone abused by the system for protecting themselves. In law it is a felony if anyone dies during the commission of a crime and the crime was blocking this guy, not the guy's response. The "protesters" are the felons.

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