Subway Thug

Fallschirmjäger said:

Remember please that 784.011 Assault requires an intentional, unlawful threat by word or act to do violence to the person of another, coupled with an apparent ability to do so, and doing some act which creates a well-founded fear in such other person that such violence is imminent.

A holstered pistol is no more a threat in a citizen's holster than it is in the holster of the local constabulary.

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I am in agreement with this interpretation, as my actions accounted. The 'urban youth' was the one fitting this description of actions. My actions only made it clear that any further escalation was patently unwise. Since Florida forces me to conceal, out of sight, out of mind. My firearm could not prevent anything since it was unknown to the actor. I made it known. He then re-evaluated his position based on this new information.

Had the information been available from the beginning, I doubt there would have been a beginning. Instead, it forced me to do something that could have made many others even more uncomfortable.

Briefly exposing a firearm, in my brief experiences in doing so, only serves to unnerve people. They don't have time to think it through, and then you cover it back up again, making you look like you're up to no good... It is engineered to make gun carriers look bad and to create intentionally skewed results to be used by anti-gunners to say "look how scared people got!" Duh...

If I didn't have to act like a criminal with my gun, it wouldn't be scaring anyone...

As currently written, the law demands that I act very suspiciously, and uses terms which are undefined and subjective to facilitate arrest and prosecution after compulsory compliance with that suspicious behavior.

Force me to act suspiciously, then arrest me and prosecute me for that suspicious behavior...

It's a trap!