Quote Originally Posted by abracax View Post
I live in PA, and Jersey has the same self defense laws. You can use the amount of force being used against you to defend yourself. So a gun against a knife of course will get you jail time.
Ahh but its not self defense is it. Im no lawyer/Policemen/Whoever else is an expert on laws. But i believe that when things like this happen you are to alert the authorities so they can properly deal with it.

In fact my neighbor had this happen kind of. He was at a party, his friends got drunk, went to break into his school. He followed to stop them, grabbed them and started taking them off the property. He was arrested when the cop got there as were the rest. They got days in jail, he received 30 day house arrest. Lesser sentence but still a sentence.

In hockey its known as the 3rd man in rule. If someone starts bashing on your teamate, and you jump in, whether to pull your teammate out or kick the crud out of the other guy, you are assessed a 5 minute major and possible game misconduct.