Metalhead47
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SpokaneIrish wrote:
Sounds to me like they were just out having a little harmless fun, and did NOT realize where the balloons were ending up. When the thugs showed up, the OP said he & his buds tried to apologize. That tells me he wasn't out to cause trouble, he does something slightly foolish & tried to rectify it. Had the thugs been ordinary sensible people instead of guttertrash, that would have been the end of it. For all we know "hitting their cars with water" amounts to two droplets from the splash.
SpokaneIrish wrote:
OP: "My friends and I were just outside tossing water balloons down a hill by our apartment."I will offer a different opinion. If this group is really dedicated to ensuring that OC continues and that the public is aware of OC laws and accepts them then we should all be appalled at the original poster's first paragraph.
The OP says he was throwing water ballons (apparently at cars) and decided to open carry while he was doing this. Throwing water balloons at cars or people without their consent is at least criminal disorderly conduct. Carrying a gun while committing this crime is at best stupid and at worst raises this to carrying a firearm while committing a crime.
The Washington Jury Instruction on Unlawful Display of a Weapon says:
"A person commits the crime of unlawfully displaying a weapon when he or she carries, exhibits, displays or draws a firearm in a manner, under the circumstances, and at the time and place that manifests an intend to intimidate another or that warrants alarm for the safety of other persons."
I think a prosecutor might make a run at convincing a jury that a person throwing objects at cars while carrying a firearm is committing this crime.
Even if no crime was committed, someone who seeks to advocate for greater respect for OC rights should be on his best behavior when carrying. The incidents described at the beginning of this thread are those of a hoodlum and whether he acted with good discretion after the criminal conduct is irrelevent.
Sounds to me like they were just out having a little harmless fun, and did NOT realize where the balloons were ending up. When the thugs showed up, the OP said he & his buds tried to apologize. That tells me he wasn't out to cause trouble, he does something slightly foolish & tried to rectify it. Had the thugs been ordinary sensible people instead of guttertrash, that would have been the end of it. For all we know "hitting their cars with water" amounts to two droplets from the splash.