From listening to your side of the story, my take is that if anything ever goes really badly wrong between the two of you, the survivor (probably you) is going to jail.
Yeah, he's going out of his way to be a jerk, but my guess is that the DA (and probably the jury) won't look kindly on the fact that you chose to introduce a firearm into a neighborhood spat.
Let's say that the confrontation in question had turned violent and you had ended up shooting him. Here's how it would likely play. You saw your nextdoor neighbor in your backyard, a person who is openly hostile towards you but who has never offered any violence. You chose to go outside with a gun and confront him even though you could plainly see that all he was doing was trimming the grass around his fence. He ends up shot. Not gonna look good.
Yeah, he's going out of his way to be a jerk, but my guess is that the DA (and probably the jury) won't look kindly on the fact that you chose to introduce a firearm into a neighborhood spat.
Let's say that the confrontation in question had turned violent and you had ended up shooting him. Here's how it would likely play. You saw your nextdoor neighbor in your backyard, a person who is openly hostile towards you but who has never offered any violence. You chose to go outside with a gun and confront him even though you could plainly see that all he was doing was trimming the grass around his fence. He ends up shot. Not gonna look good.