Quote Originally Posted by jhebrew View Post
I'm not a lawyer so I really don't know what would happen in court if you gave someone the finger prior to engaging them but I figure that it will be one less variable to stress about should it ever come up. Courteous to everyone is my policy.
Advice that flipping someone off by itself constitutes becoming the aggressor in a confrontation is wrong in a legal sense, but its not a bad point for a CCW instructor to make in that one does not merely flip someone the finger but usually accompanies it with verbal abuse that clouds the question of who is escalating a confrontation.