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On January 06 2019 00:24 ZerOCoolSC2 wrote:

I didn't see the video but I saw a post about it. I can understand your sentiment regarding that last paragraph. And no doubt, he would have probably shot her inside McDonald's and go away with it, even though she was defending herself and complying with newly passed legislature. I wonder what MickeyD's is gonna do about it. Will they give her money for damages? Or will they fire her for violence on the job? That's how cynical I am of today's society.

On January 06 2019 02:29 Dangermousecatdog wrote:
This reminds of the time this black guy was assaulted by 2 black women who went over the counter in McDonalds and defended himself. He got fired and no one cared. No PR problem at all.

On January 06 2019 02:03 JimmiC wrote:
The PR is definitely falling in her favor, people are loving her for slugging the guy. But it does show how much it sucks to be a smallish woman because she hits him a lot cleanly and it doesn't do anything. Thank goodness it was in a public place and other could step up and it is on video.

The only issue with the mutual combat law is that if it isn't on video and the person who loses claims he was just assaulted or someone sucker punches some one and claims mutual combat. That being said I'm all for it I played in a non fighting hockey league I've never had so many slashes and bruises. I played in the league that allowed fighting, almost not slashing and as a team we maybe had 3-5 fights a year. I think letting people fight if there is a culture of letting it go 1 on 1 is a good thing.

People need to take pride on the 1v1 no weapon aspects. People also talk a lot less shit if there is a legit chance of getting punched in the face.

On January 06 2019 05:50 Excludos wrote:


There's a large likelyhood of people doing martial arts soley for the purpose of harassing other people into fighting them if they could get away with it cleanly. Where I grew up there was a group of people who did this even when it's not allowed here. They would show up at parties, antagonize someone drunk and stupid enough to follow them outside, and beat him up. Eventually they got banned from all the gyms, and people would just jump on them whenever they showed up anywhere, because it's a small'ish village and word travels fast. If it was in a city no one would probably every notice the pattern of repeated singling out and assault on whoever they came across at random.

On January 06 2019 07:26 GreenHorizons wrote:


Provided they just beat people up without really trying to cause permanent dmg it'd probably be more effective than how we handle violent alcoholism and people with poor judgement currently.

I mean the Karate Kid had it rough but I'm pretty sure he wasn't trying to move to Compton. Most people would rather lose a tooth (as much as that sucks) than get paralyzed (or worse) by a bullet.

But even if we turn every violent inter-person shooting into a fistfight we're still left with a lot of dead people as a result of guns.

On January 06 2019 07:29 Excludos wrote:



Oh I agree. However, legalising fist fights while guns are still roaming about isn't going to solve much, and if you solve the gun problem then legalising fist fights is kinda redundant while introducing a whole lot of other issues, so you might as well not.

On January 06 2019 23:14 riotjune wrote:
Hey guns is the great equalizer. Can even make a skinny nerd stand toe to toe with a steroid infused goliath with just a pull of the trigger. My excuse for not taking combatives training seriously anyway.

Though I've seen guys take on and handily beat other guys way bigger than them during outside bar fights using just mixed martial arts, that was something. If the big guy also knows how to fight though, uh oh. Once I saw the small guy had the other guy in an arm bar, the big dude was still somehow able to lift him up and repeatedly slam him into the ground lol

On January 07 2019 01:37 Simberto wrote:


That sounds like you regularly see people beat each other up. Is that something that people experience a lot of?

Because i am quite certain that i have never seen a legitimate fight in my life. The worst i have experienced was some play-fighting in the school yard in 6th or 7th grade, but punches or kicks were basically taboo, so it usually involved trying to get some kind of painful arm hold, and was never really serious, more along the lines of teenage boys (who were all kind of friends) figuring out stuff.

It seems from posts like yours that there is this whole world out there where it is completely normal that people beat each other to a pulp all the time, and i have just never intersected with it.