Unspoken Threats [View All]

[sunnystarr]

After reading about Fuller's arrest for taking a picture of a Tea Party leader at a town hall meeting while mumbling "you're dead" and the arrest of a Republican candidate who posted "threats" on her FaceBook page: "Someday Boooooom while your setting in your offices," read a second. "And you know I won't even be the one pulling the trigger," said another ...

I thought about all the non-verbal threats by people openly brandishing their guns in a political setting. Why wouldn't this be considered a threat? If someone wearing a gun hears something they don't like and puts their hand to their pistol, isn't that a threat as well?

Guns are meant to intimidate - to threaten. To let others know ... don't mess with me or I can shoot you. Guns in a public setting have only one purpose ... to kill or injure another person. A death threat!