Originally Posted by
HeruMew
No, not really.
But, most of us are not criminals who, in 3 years, have wracked up multiple charges of carrying weapons we shouldn't, nor would any of us get assaulted at our place of work, and instead of calling the police to report the assault, go on our merry day as if nothin happened.
Which do we assume? A Felon known to Carry weapons used in this incident, has gotten in trouble carrying them, and doesn't call 911 when they should have and when they left he got "jumped". Or, is it a guy who got attacked, had his ego hurt, and went outside to confront them with the knife? Especially because the article says: "Spilled outside". Did they drag him out, or did he run out? Did he direct them outside, or what?
We won't know. Unless we have access to more actual evidence, we can't assume shite. What I do know though, is, it looks really bad for the guy. We don't know the ages of the attackers either, I mean, if this was 3 hoodlum 13-14 year olds, yeah, that's gonna look even worse.
I am not saying I agree with the state's determination of Dangerous Weapons, but I am saying that usually criminality isn't followed up by "Good-Guy-Furever" living. The individual may find a way to coexist between criminality and normalcy, but it's very rarely "out-of-the-life"; and I have a hard time looking at it differently without evidence of such.