Gun like hand gesture is a crime

[ja308]

Or how about the "squish someones head" gesture between thumb and forefinger when held close to ones eye?

Society has gone totally insane with PC crap like this!

LOL or the cut their throat gesture by sliding ones index finger across the neck !

BTW I love your avatar. we have the exact same hung above our Shrine. Oh I mean the Television set !

[ja308]

How many people in this thread didn't understand plot points in Taxi Driver and Gran Torino? :-)

https://www.popbabble.org/movies/act...in-the-movies/

"You talking to Me "
Sort of off the topic but Robert " Punchy " De Niro's current rants about the President should get him red flagged.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e9CkhBb18E

OMG at 1m40 seconds DeNiro rants with nearly the same language he has used against our President.
Maybe the secret service should watch this clip and see if he is a threat !

[norcalAF]

No one should be allowed to have more than 10 fingers?

Just take away thumbs

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[IVC]

Good thing he didn't give him the finger. He might end up having to register as a sex offender for "threatening a rape"...

[wpage]

Red flaggings should apply to many of the facebook rants from left wing nuts.

Lock those terrorists up first.

[ShaneB]

Good thing he didn't give him the finger. He might end up having to register as a sex offender for "threatening a rape"...

[BigFatGuy]

LOL or the cut their throat gesture by sliding ones index finger across the neck !

if someone you were having issues with made that gesture to your wife, you'd think nothing of it, and not think it was a threat against her life and safety?

[watevers1]

the video clearly shows he discharged the finger pistol based on the recoil displayed in the video. whether it was a single or over under barrel is still to be determined.

[DolphinFan]

So IF I point my finger to my head, or slice it against my neck I'm attempting suicide?

[ja308]

if someone you were having issues with made that gesture to your wife, you'd think nothing of it, and not think it was a threat against her life and safety?

1st off I don't have issues with people, much less anyone who would threaten my wife.

Do you have experience along those lines? If so how did you handle it ?

[riderr]

If I understand the incident correctly, it was a reaction to a threat of the group sexual assault.

He said in district court he made the "gunlike" gesture after his neighbor gave him "the finger with both hands."

Is his neighbor going to be cited too?

I believe this case will die on the appeal

[Cincinnatus]

So, military "knife hands" are what, deadly threats with a cleaver?

Where's the double facepalm when you really, really need it?

[BigFatGuy]

1st off I don't have issues with people, much less anyone who would threaten my wife.

Since you've never been murdered, I assume that means you don't own any self defense firearms either?

That's the dumbest argument I've ever heard. You are not, i assure you, so flawless a person that nobody will ever be angry at you.

Also, I said "IF". That means IF it happened, not WHEN it happend.

Do you have experience along those lines? If so how did you handle it ?

My life has been threatened. I was young, and simply avoided the other person til he lost interest. Today, I'm not sure. I do my best to avoid getting into conflicts that lead to threats on each others' lives... but I assure you I would not assume he was being harmless if someone made an "I'm going to kill you" motion to my wife.

[ja308]

if someone you were having issues with made that gesture to your wife, you'd think nothing of it, and not think it was a threat against her life and safety?

1st off I would assess the individual, by looking for scar tissue and or calloused knuckles. Next I would quickly look at his face, did he have a broken nose or scars around the eyes. If none of that were present , I would not feel very threatened and probably ask him what the problem was?

Its been my experience that people who train to fight rarely look for trouble. Since this is all hypothetical I can relate a true event that happened when the late Mrs JA was alive and raising our children.

Some kid between 7-10 was insulting My wife. I told him to leave and he said "My Dad will beat you up ! " A few minutes later I see the kid with his Dad who was very muscular and wearing a wife beater shirt. I was 5'11 and about 160 lbs He was about my height and close to 190.
He saw me and I saw him across the street with his kid. I did a quick assessment. hands no protrusions on knuckles, (good sign) he pointed at me and I immediately started walking quickly toward him, as if he was no problem for me. He slowed and told me what his kid said I did and informed him his kid was so rude and disrespectful to my wife, that I told him to leave.

He started talking to his kid who was disappointed, the dad didn't stand up for him.
All in all he didn't want to risk a fight and he thought his size and puffed out chest would bluff me into running or cowering.

[baih777]

Gun gesture with hand has been considered a threat for many years.

But since the other guy gave him the finger with both hands. He should claim sexual assault. Thinking the gesture meant DP.

And he was defending himself.

Dont ever use that hand gun gesture around a cop.