St. Louis attorneys draw down on protestors passing by.

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The protestors were marching in the neighborhood.  Not tiptoeing through Karen and Kyle's tulips.  

Are you saying I can go out in my yard and point a gun at anyone who happens to be walking by?  I have a hunch that even here in Texas that could land my butt in a jail cell.

Having not seen the confrontation - I cançt say one way or the other -

But



Years ago when 7.62 x 39 ammo became widely and cheaply available (Russian ammo) I bought a couple Russuan SKS rifles. To those not in the know an+ SKS is a Soviet "home guard" rifle very simular to the AK47.  Big difference being a fixed 10 round magazine. I had mine fitted with a fixed 30 round. So to the uneducated it looked like an AK47.

I was walking back from my firing range out behind the barn carrying the rifle barrel down  - to find a carload of Jehovas withnesses on my doorstep.

As soon as I realized who they were I told them to vacate immediately. They wanted to keep talking and convince me that I needed to hear what they had to say.

I yelled in my loudest voice (all the while keeping the barrel of the rifle pointed at my feet) GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE...I was totally in charge of myself and was being verbally aggressive to get them to comply... I did not walk towards them or make any threatening gestures.

They rushed to their car - and left.

45 minutes later the state police (not county) showed up. (I was washing my bike in shorts and flip flops)

The JWs said I was "brandishing a machine gun".


The State boy got a chuckle out of it...


To some people - merely holding a gun is "brandishing".

I get that.  But those two entitled knuckleheads were pointing guns at people who were in the neighborhood.  Not in their yard.  Not in their house.  Not on their patio.  Not in their pool.  In the damn neighborhood.  Pointing a gun at someone is a threat and should be handled as such.  

Those two weren't just holding their weapons.  Unless Karen always holds hers at arm's length in front of her and pointing - not at the ground, not at the sky - to the front of her where people are walking in the neighborhood.