Reply #40: You have the right not to BE threatened, but not the right not to FEEL threatened [View All]

[Euromutt]

As far as the law is concerned, whether someone is threatening you with a weapon depends entirely on that person's actions; their conduct, to paraphrase the Revised Code of Washington, has to manifest an intent to intimidate, and doing so with any weapon "apparently capable of producing bodily harm" is a gross misdemeanor in the state of Washington.

But if a person is not actively trying to threaten/intimidate you, and yet you feel threatened/intimidated anyway, that is entirely your problem.

I find it curious how the proponents of increased gun control on this forum (and elsewhere) continuously assert that you have to be suffering from some irrational, paranoid fear to carry a firearm for self-defense, but do not consider it irrational, paranoid and/or fearful to get (or feign) an attack of the vapors at the mere sight of a holstered handgun.