Stay out of our alleyway and take your mattress with you.

you dipshit, no one is obligated to let someone take a swing first, and the bat was in a ready position the entire time. the bat even gets thrown at them, he was obviously threatening them off screen.

did you even watch the video, or do you think it didn't happen because the trashy girlfriend didn't point her camera at the guy with a bat?

It's quite possible to kill somebody with a single punch: that's why police rules of engagement suggest that cops open fire before a perp gets within 21 feet of them.

And yeah, they may be white trash hicks, but so what? Mattress dude was the one who was breaking the law; they were merely enforcing it. If we want our society to flourish, people should learn to fear the consequences of breaking the law, and repeated interactions like this help them to do so. I may not be a "trash hick" like these fine gentlemen but if somebody violated my rights, I would kill as many people as necessary until they regretted their choices, whether that was one man or one billion. I believe that my civil rights are more important than literally any number of human lives, and if other people don't want to die, they need to learn to respect my rights and not force me into situations where I have to choose between allowing them to live or enforcing my rights, because I will always choose the latter option.

No, Redditors are kitties so they say the opposite of that. They truly don't understand that "tit for tat" is the only way to deal with mentally ill narcissists. And honestly, tit for tat works pretty well with nice people too. The only people who ever seem to object to that ethical code are people with shitty tits.

In general I agree with you, but in this case, I was honestly surprised at how polite and articulate they were. I hope this doesn't make me sound like a classist snob, but I definitely did not expect such a reasonable attitude from shirtless people carrying that level of firepower. Guess that's my New England yuppie indoctrination talking, LOL

He was put down.

But I can't conceal and also look tactical when I put on my WROL SHTF maximalist-minimalist Gucci plate carrier and confront suspected jaywalkers with a H&K M416 that I financed for 96 months using Klarna

If they had pointed the gun, or made a threat like "move the mattress or I'll shoot you" then I would agree with you. They did neither of those things. It was pretty clear to me that the guns were just there so that they could defend their physical safety if the confrontation got too heated and loudmouth mattress guy attacked them - which he did.

How are they ruining their own lives? Any reasonably good defense lawyer ought to get them off, and if they're smart, they can work the system like Kyle Rittenhouse did and hopefully get some fame and money out of it. Shit, I would donate to their legal defense fund.

And I see absolutely nothing wrong with killing your neighbor, if he's violating your rights and deliberately trying to pick a fight with you. In fact, if he's an butthole, then killing him is a good deed because then he won't disrespect anybody else's rights.

But if they called the police, then this guy would just deny it was his mattress or something like that, and then he'd continue to pull shit like this. This way, they not only have absolute proof that he was breaking the law, but also they're never going to have problems with that neighbor ever again. If some narcissist violates your rights and gives you a legal excuse to kill them, you should always take them up on their generous offer. This way, you not only remove the narcissist from your life more quickly, but you also acquire a reputation as somebody that narcissists don't want to frick with, which means that you'll have to deal with a lot fewer of these situations in the future.

Seems to me like they made the smart move. Sure, they'll get into a little legal hassle, but at the end of the day this seems like a perfectly clear case of self-defense.