Not a good tactic

[okespe04]

Makes ccw look bad:



BEAVERTON, Ore. -- A driver was arrested and charged with menacing after police said he pointed a gun at two teens throwing snowballs at cars during Tuesday's snowstorm.

http://www.kgw.com/news/local/Snowball-throwers-say-driver-pulled-a-gun-on-them-80445732.html

 

[kingpin008]

Posting links: Don't post a link to a news article and let it go at that. Please post the first paragraph or a summary of the article. That would help members decide if they want to go to the linked article for the remainder of the story.

Thanks.

 

[scoutsabout]

In the end of the article, they mis-spelled his last name "Lame"

 

[Darkninja]

We've been over this ad nauseum. Don't pull your gun out unless you're in fear for your life. It's called brandishing and will get you in trouble...

 

[Jorg Nysgerrig]

Is there a discussion of tactics here or just pointing out a news article showing gun stupdity?

 

[FenderTK421]

Didn't a detective do the same thing about a week ago?

 

[Tim Burke]

About 2 weeks ago, in DC, Detective Baylor (sp?) was filmed with his gun in hand. The gun was drawn in response to a bunch of snowball throwers. Wasn't a good tactic for him, either, although he wasn't arrested on the spot. Haven't heard any follow up on this.

 

[Pyzon]

Maybe the snowball throwers were putting chunks of rock in the middle of the snowballs like some bad kids in my neighborhood used to do. Those bad kids did not ever get better either.

But seriously folks, brandishing or worse for stuff like this should get you a couple of years suspension or maybe worse from CCW.

Real dumb.

 

[Ryder]

Don't pull your gun out unless you're in fear for your life. It's called brandishing and will get you in trouble...

Tactically speaking...

The simple showing of your gun as an intended threat (to intimidate) is brandishing.

Pointing it at someone is a whole other legal charge.