User blog comment:Pikapi/Strike against SOPA/@comment-26718502-20120118213205/@comment-3313105-20120119185159

Legally not so, I believe; as long as a defendent honestly believes 'rightly or wrongly' that they are in danger, they are entitled to use reasonable force to prevent it. Obviously it's difficult to implement laws like this which deal with a person's thoughts in a wholly consistent way.