Are you upset, Motley? Upset people like to resort to personal attacks when they know someone makes valid points contrary to their own points. Also, you have insinuated your (possible) predisposition to gun violence. You wrote: "You know, where I get to use 'deadly physical force' to defend myself?" You used the word "get," instead of the words "am forced to." That's fairly telling of your possible state of mind. I'm not sure that insinuating a burning desire to shoot people would qualify as "civil," either,  are you?

So, to be clear, I believe that the hero in our story, Sparhawk, could possibly be lying about just minding his own business and heading home. It's possible that he knew exactly where the marchers were, and deliberately drove his truck into the "undisciplined mob" to at least rile them up.  I believe it's possible that he could have been looking for a reaction. Perhaps not the reaction he received (and, for the third time, DID NOT DESERVE) but a reaction nonetheless.