This reminds me of a time when I was getting bullied in middle school(by some flunky cholo... 2-3 years older.. who also then went onto commit a double homicide a year later) ... i couldn't sleep the night before shit was gonna go down, my pops advice to me was if he's coming for you, he's not gonna coming to shake your hand, you swing on him... I just wound up like I was gonna throw a pitch and cracked the kid as hard as I could. .. did good till I I heard "ima jump in" coming from behind me.... either way, I hit that kid hard enough that after that he wanted to be cool with me....

Moral of the story is you swing on that kid or they're gonna swing on you.