You don’t have to want to kill anybody, but it’s still a crime to violently assault someone. Further, you can still kill someone without trying, say you punch him once and he goes lights out and his head hits the concrete so hard it kills him. Doesn’t matter that you didn’t want to, you just killed someone.
Now if you used something defensive like pepper spray so you can escape with your wallet? That’s a different story. There’s a wide gap between protecting your property and assaulting someone.
Spraying someone with pepper spray is a violent assault. It’s banned in a number of counties due to the possibility of permanent injury or even death, and the risk to bystanders.
You don’t have to want to kill anybody, but it’s still a crime to violently assault someone. Further, you can still kill someone without trying, say you punch him once and he goes lights out and his head hits the concrete so hard it kills him. Doesn’t matter that you didn’t want to, you just killed someone.
Now if you used something defensive like pepper spray so you can escape with your wallet? That’s a different story. There’s a wide gap between protecting your property and assaulting someone.
Spraying someone with pepper spray is a violent assault. It’s banned in a number of counties due to the possibility of permanent injury or even death, and the risk to bystanders.
I didn’t say I want to assault anybody. But if someone tries to take my wallet, would I push them off and move away swiftly? Yes absolutely.
I guess to me, that seems rather defensive. I don’t want to engage any more than I have to to extricate myself from the situation