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So...if a sitting - or otherwise - government official moves next door to me, and we get into a neighborhood row, I can go to prison for standing my ground?

Paul wasn’t attacked for any governmental reason, or policy reason, or partisan reason...just over grass clippings - whether he was wrong, or right.

I guess the “elected class” have a lifelong immunity to everything.

Oh well...no free cataract surgery for Mr. Rene’.

20 posted on 01/19/2018 6:43:12 PM PST by FrankR (Journalists are shoulder-chipped playground kids afraid of being beat up...so, they write.)

Paul wasn’t attacked for any governmental reason, or policy reason, or partisan reason...just over grass clippings - whether he was wrong, or right.

It is not clear to me this is the case. It is what is being said.

The fact is that Rand Paul’s politics are directly opposite the man who attacked him.

31 posted on 01/19/2018 7:02:41 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)

“Paul wasn’t attacked for any governmental reason, or policy reason, or partisan reason...just over grass clippings - whether he was wrong, or right.”

This was a violent, criminal assault. It was a sneak attack on Paul’s own property. And you’re assuming the deranged, violent criminal who attacked him is 100% truthful about his side of the story?

Lock him up. It’s a very reasonable punishment. Just because injustice happens elsewhere does not mean it has to happen to everyone. Paul is one of the better senators. I’m glad his attacker is facing justice.

34 posted on 01/19/2018 7:05:02 PM PST by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)

As long as you “stand” on your own damn ground, you can bay to the moon nightly, but you can’t charge a neighbor from behind, break his ribs and puncture his lungs, not on his lawn, with your sucker punch and then talk about how you’re standing your ground and the victim has it made because he’s elected to office and you’re not.

40 posted on 01/19/2018 8:14:13 PM PST by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public education & academia= the farm team for more Marxists coming, infinitum.)

The guy who attacked Paul was not “standing his ground.”
He was on Paul’s ground.
And while his attny wants to push the story it was over that day’s lawn clippings, it is unlikely... as they haven’t spoken in 10 yrs... and whatever Paul’s habits are with disposing of leaves and twigs he’s probably been doing it the same way every other week since he bought the place, without being tackled.
Something else triggered the neighbor... most likely something in the newspaper or news app he read that morning.