Health: Wait a cotton-picking minute.
First, you say, “Yes, he did something wrong and it might even be called Battery (a crime),” and then you say “but this does Not Justify a violent response.”
HUH?
Battery is, according to definitions.uslegal.com, is
“a crime and also the basis for a lawsuit as a civil wrong if there is damage. A battery is any:
a. Willful and unlawful use of force or violence upon the person of another; or
b. Actual, intentional and unlawful touching or striking of another person against the will of the other; or
c. Unlawfully and intentionally causing bodily harm to an individual.”
If you’re admitting that he committed battery, then he obviously was already being violent, which would probably make a “violent response” justified.
Just because you think liberals go too far doesn’t mean you have to go conservative to the extreme.
And there are less infantile ways of making your point than insulting commentors.