do you have a cite for that statement as the RCW i cited and quoted didn't state it that way.
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Hitting someone hard enough to lay them out could very easily also kill them or otherwise cause permanent damage. The threat was clear the person making the threat clearly had the ability to carry out the threat. Actually he should have been arrested for making the even making the threat and likely may be in the near future.
RCW 9A.16.050
Homicide — By other person — When justifiable.
Homicide is also justifiable when committed either:
(1) In the lawful defense of the slayer, or his or her husband, wife, parent, child, brother, or sister, or of any other person in his or her presence or company, when there is reasonable ground to apprehend a design on the part of the person slain to commit a felony or to do some great personal injury to the slayer or to any such person, and there is imminent danger of such design being accomplished; or
(2) In the actual resistance of an attempt to commit a felony upon the slayer, in his or her presence, or upon or in a dwelling, or other place of abode, in which he or she is.
6A.04.080 Threats to do harm.
(1) A person is guilty of threats to do harm if:
(a) Without lawful authority, the person knowingly threatens:
(i) To cause bodily injury immediately or in the future to the person threatened or to any other person; or
(ii) To cause physical damage to the property of a person other than the actor; or
(iii) To subject the person threatened or any other person to physical confinement or restraint; or
(iv) Maliciously to do any other act which is intended to substantially harm the person threatened or another with respect to his or her physical or mental health or safety; and
(b) The person by words or conduct places the person threatened in reasonable fear that the threat will be carried out.
(2) Threats to do harm is a gross misdemeanor.
(3) For the purposes of this provision, “words or conduct” includes, in addition to any other form of communication or conduct, the sending of an electronic communication.
(4) The penalty provided in this provision shall not preclude the victim from seeking any other remedy otherwise available under law.
RCW definition of Grave bodily harm (c) "Great bodily harm" means bodily injury which creates a probability of death, or which causes significant serious permanent disfigurement, or which causes a significant permanent loss or impairment of the function of any bodily part or organ;
