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Originally Posted by rycerz
Again.... opening the door while holding a handgun is brandishing... it implies a threat towards the other person. You might not mean anything by it but the person at the door will feel threatened. And if you didn't mean to threaten, why hold it? Why not lay it on a table someplace inside?
Also if you feel that you need to hold a gun when you open the door, DON"T OPEN IT. Next: if you are at the door and you have handgun by your side..... guess what.... I'm too close to you for the handgun to be that useful so then again: why.... have the handgun ?
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Your response seems to lean toward how someone else feels yet we are talking about a situation where the home owner felt threatened. How many people out there 'felt' something just was not right and did not take precautions because they did not want to offend the other person and were rewarded by being the victim of a crime. There are self defense classes for women who are taught to follow their instincts (feelings) when it comes to protecting themselves. Personally I don't give a rats @$$ about someone who shows up at my door and makes me 'feel' somethings wrong.
You go on to question why the OP would have a handgun on themselves, this is problematic when we start to us the same arguments that the 'antis' use on us, on each other. An argument (using your logic) could be made to deny you a CCW because you might be in a situation where you have more assailants than bullets and therefore we will not let you carry because you will not be effective. Sounds dumb huh?
The bottom line is he was in his own house, felt there was something amis, took precautions, and decided to share for our benefit.
