These were children...making mistakes. Not 50 taliban with AKs or aliens in Doom 3. You would become the most hated man in the your state. I can see the headlines 'Crazed home owner guns down teenagers in self defence. Is it time to review our gun laws?'
The more people that kill because they have no other skills to defend themself the more likely your gun laws will be turned against you eventualy. You dont want that. I dont want that. I want to come to the USA and shoot some beautifull guns on a target range. That freedom you have could be so easily abused and removed. Unless of course you really all would take arms against your government to stop it. Man, that would really suck.
Again, you do not understand at all. These were teenagers, bent on causing someone serious bodily harm. Had this man died, he would have been just as dead as if he were beaten by a 25 year old perp. Children, making mistakes? These were thugs, making a conscious decision. And depending on the mentality you are showing in order to be allowed to get away with it.
I'd just as soon be alive and well, and ignore what people think, as to be beaten or killed, so I don't have to worry about some morons hating me. And I can assure you, in order to prevent myself or someone else from being beaten and possibly killed, I'd have no qualms at all about shooting anyone attempting to issue said beating, especially if it were a large group.
I'm sure there are plenty who would take up arms against our corrupt government should it come to that. It has happened before. Hopefully we still have enough people with a spine left to do it again if it becomes necessary.