Anyone with some basic fundamental martial arts/self defence training could take on a thug with a baseball bat. It is a very clumsy weapon with a predictable and very telegraphed range of attack options.
“Anyone with some basic fundamental martial arts/self defence training could take on a thug with a baseball bat. It is a very clumsy weapon with a predictable and very telegraphed range of attack options.”
May be true. But does that obviate the fact that a bat is an assault weapon and consequently capable of maximum harm and therefore exposed to maximum penalty of self defense(death)?