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RE: Did the South Portland Maine police overreact or not?
From: Blanchard_Michael () emc com
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 12:28:42 -0500
-----Original Message----- From: Drsolly [mailto:drsollyp () drsolly com] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 11:31 AM To: Brian Loe Cc: Blanchard, Michael (InfoSec); funsec () linuxbox org Subject: Re: [funsec] Did the South Portland Maine police overreact or not? On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Brian Loe wrote:
On 11/2/06, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:Yes, brandishing is along the lines of "showing in a
threateningly
manor". Leaves an awful lot to interpretation....If "threatening manner" is the criterion, then I'd say that anyone
openly
carrying a gun is showing it in a threatening manner. Isn't that the
whole
point of openly carrying?To you it might be threatening, but a reasonable adult wouldn't be threatened at all. Considering every cop in the states carries openly it is pretty common,
I thought we were talking about citizens, not cops.
besides the fact that those aforementioned rational adults would understand the difference between a gun in a holster and gun in your face....
I would find it very threatening, and I would vote accordingly on a jury. The entire point of carrying a gun openly, is to show that you're armed. ---> as I mentioned before, in some states, that is the ONLY way you're legally allowed to carry a handgun. I agree that it's odd, I personally would much rather have concealed carry, there are many people that simply see a handgun and think that the person is a bad guy unless they're in a police uniform. Or not somuch as think the guy is a bad guy but feel uneasy due to the sight of the handgun. I'd rather avoid that whole "uneasyness" and carry concealed. Many people I meet have no idea I'm armed, that's the way I like it, no questions asked, no funny looks. If you're forced to openly carry, you get all kinds of funny looks, etc.. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: Did the South Portland Maine police overreact or not?, (continued)
- Re: Did the South Portland Maine police overreact or not? Brian Loe (Nov 02)
- Re: Did the South Portland Maine police overreact or not? Drsolly (Nov 02)
- RE: Did the South Portland Maine police overreact or not? Blanchard_Michael (Nov 02)
- RE: Did the South Portland Maine police overreact or not? Drsolly (Nov 02)
- Re: Did the South Portland Maine police overreact or not? Brian Loe (Nov 02)
- Re: Did the South Portland Maine police overreact or not? Drsolly (Nov 02)
- Re: Did the South Portland Maine police overreact or not? Brian Loe (Nov 02)
- Re: Did the South Portland Maine police overreact or not? Dude VanWinkle (Nov 02)
- Re: Did the South Portland Maine police overreact or not? Drsolly (Nov 02)
- Re: Did the South Portland Maine police overreact or not? Dude VanWinkle (Nov 02)
- RE: Did the South Portland Maine police overreact or not? Blanchard_Michael (Nov 02)
- Re: Did the South Portland Maine police overreact or not? Dude VanWinkle (Nov 01)