Srry to say this but I believe it to be true..You do have the right to protect yourself from bodily harm against this jerk. If you have the right to carry and conceal or just plain open carry a pistol...Then by all means protect yourself and if that means shooting the thug, then so be it...Remember dead men tell no lies as a State Trooper once told my dad after some punks broke into our house and stole quite a bunch of our possesions while we were gone one day.