In some states including Florida and I think Texas, deadly force can be used upon YOUR fear for your life. The concept is that you have a right to protect yourself and threatening behavior, if YOU feel you are threatened to the point you must defend yourself they should not have placed you in that position. The burden is then to prove otherwise upon the law.

However, I rode all over Houston and never had one single problem for 10 years, but, sooner or later we are going to have to take our cities back from the hoodlums if we are serious about living car free. In fact, I have never realy had a problem ever other than an odd encounter recently in Pompano on a fishing peer that was making me nervous, but, I either misunderstood him or he decided I was not a very good target.