Rioters Beware! Keep Your Protests Peacful

[Aoi Magi]

you seem like a strong advocate of the stand-your-ground law.

Blocking traffic doesn't make it ok for people to get run over. Feeling intimidated by a crowd  also isn't a good enough reason to run over people. One can always open up a map and pick another route, and even then, if blocking traffic is a headache, there are law agents to arrest or disperse the crowd, there's no reason for a random person to run over another person just cause they are blocking the way.

There's definitely reasons that exist why someone should be run over for blocking the way.

If it's an organized protest then yeh I agree you can pick another route and police should disperse the crowd.

On the other hand there are situations that might not be as clear cut as that.  If a persons car is being blocked all of a sudden often the driver has no idea of the intent of the people blocking the path until the vehicle is stopped.  Then they will find out if they're going to get pulled out of the car and have rocks thrown at their head, or if it's a peaceful protest.  But they shouldn't have to wait for that to happen, in that instance running over the people blocking the way is justified.

No, what you are describing is assault, and yes in case of assault one should defend themselves. But running over someone for simply protesting by blocking traffic is not justifiable.

In murica, that granny across the street can easily pull a gun on me, so should I just randomly drive over her so that I "don't have to wait for that to happen"?