Im going to throw in my 2 cents and thats all im going to say on this topic. I had an old man tell me one time "If youre mad enough to hit a man youre mad enough to kill him". And ya know what he is right anytime I have wanted to knock the shit out of somebody I was mad enough to shoot him dead. Im a little guy with an explosive temper, when I get after somebody they had better kill me or im going to do my best to kill them. The fact is you never know what youre dealing with, dude shouldnt have opened the door. The kid that threw the punch got what was coming.
I couldnt disagree more. 90% of fights the worst the dudes want to do is knock the other dude out and walk away. I cant think of one time me or anyone i know has gotten in a fight and litterally wished death upon their opponent. Perhaps if some one is intoxicated he might think like that but hes probably so drunk he couldnt do it if he wanted to. Now id say when being attacked you need to take the violence to another level beyond what the attacker is mentally ready for. But i just dont see where your coming from with WANTING to kill some one. Even if i am forced to shoot at a guy my ideal scenario is i miss and he sprawls out on the floor begging me to stop. I highly doubt thats how it goes down if im pulling a trigger but still No one ever WANTS to kill some one. Not normal people... thugs n gang bangers yeah maybe... but it takes a mentally disturbed person to want to kill just because they are upset at a person over a fist fight scenario.
With all that said i dont believe you are in the mentally disturbed category. Some one who wants to kill a person wont end it after the fight stops. they will make it happen eventually. The hatred needed to WANT to kill dosent click on out of no where and then the fights over you cool off and forget about it.
"Im gonna kill that son of a bitch" is a figure of speach. People dont mean it. They may even tell you they are serious...but they arent. They almost always get their fill of violence after no life threatening injuries to their opponent.
Where fist fights turn lethal is where theres large groups of people all issuing blows that after so many kills the guy. Or theres escilaters like one guy stupidly pulls out his pocket knife, then the other guy pulls his out. It would have been a fist fight but it escilated to both of their disliking.
But with all that said a smaller man then yourself can be considered a threat of great bodily harm. If the dudes 5 ft nothing and is yoked and is doing backflips and punching himself in the face he may very well be a threat of great bodily harm to the 7ft 300 lb dude.
Hows this for a justified shooting quick clearifier. If you shoot the guy and your hands are cold as ice because all the blood left your hands then you probably really did fear for your life. If you shoot a guy and your ears are ringing then its probably a crime of anger and not of great fear.
In this case evn if the guy really did fear for his life after he was punched he already abandoned any hope of a legal shoot when he went looking for trouble so tough shit for him.
