If physical assault was legal in the US without getting arrested, you should have punched his lights out!! If anyone laughs or makes fun of a stuttering person, they should have the tar kicked out of them!!!! I wonder how many of us on this forum have wanted to physical hurt someone for making fun of us, but we never had the nerve to or it just wasn't in us...... It is dehumanizing to be made fun of laughed at or teased!!! And of course it's probably dehumanizing to retaliate with physical abuse......BUT the bully has done damage...we should not want the bully to get away with it!!