Psychedelic Bang
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I did not know whether to put this in Law and Civil rights, or here in General Discussion, or even in Tactics - mods feel free to move where you see fit.
This is the incident that really just happened, I witnessed it first hand on my way home from a martial arts class tonight.
The situation unfolds: there is an accident on a busy street at about 8pm. Delray beach, Atlantic ave, and US1 - just if anybody knows where that is. The street has three lanes, the far left lane is left turn only no turn on red. The far right lane is right turn, or go straight. The center lane is go straight only, obviously...
I'm in the far left lane, first car, waiting for a green light to make a left, its obvious that before I got there the cars had been there quite a while. This was probably an accident that was just about clearing.
I hear screaming in the far right lane, the guy is screaming, "make the right, make the right." But the car directly in front of him is going straight, and frankly, isn't required to make the right. The screaming man gets out of his car, and he's just full of rage, and he's all crazy looking, but dressed very well, and definitely was not a poor looking man, or a thug. He's like, "an upper middle class looking guy," could even be a doctor dress in a casual outfit. but he's so enraged and storms up to the car in the front lane and he's screaming, "make this turn explicative."
All of a sudden it seems the light flips green. and the car dude was screaming at, goes straight across the light and out of this situation.
I make my left turn and think to myself, "omg, if you came up to my car like that, screaming like a maniac..."
Do you pull your gun in the situation I just described? Can you legally brandish a firearm in that situation?
Or...
Do you not pull a gun? Maybe pulling a gun is too much in that situation. Maybe you have to wait until the road rage maniac pulls a gun, or physically attacks you?
This is the incident that really just happened, I witnessed it first hand on my way home from a martial arts class tonight.
The situation unfolds: there is an accident on a busy street at about 8pm. Delray beach, Atlantic ave, and US1 - just if anybody knows where that is. The street has three lanes, the far left lane is left turn only no turn on red. The far right lane is right turn, or go straight. The center lane is go straight only, obviously...
I'm in the far left lane, first car, waiting for a green light to make a left, its obvious that before I got there the cars had been there quite a while. This was probably an accident that was just about clearing.
I hear screaming in the far right lane, the guy is screaming, "make the right, make the right." But the car directly in front of him is going straight, and frankly, isn't required to make the right. The screaming man gets out of his car, and he's just full of rage, and he's all crazy looking, but dressed very well, and definitely was not a poor looking man, or a thug. He's like, "an upper middle class looking guy," could even be a doctor dress in a casual outfit. but he's so enraged and storms up to the car in the front lane and he's screaming, "make this turn explicative."
All of a sudden it seems the light flips green. and the car dude was screaming at, goes straight across the light and out of this situation.
I make my left turn and think to myself, "omg, if you came up to my car like that, screaming like a maniac..."
Do you pull your gun in the situation I just described? Can you legally brandish a firearm in that situation?
Or...
Do you not pull a gun? Maybe pulling a gun is too much in that situation. Maybe you have to wait until the road rage maniac pulls a gun, or physically attacks you?
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