Law Confirmed my justification

[spqrzilla]

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.

[CapLock]

Ok you flipped a guy off then pulled a gun on him.

How would that go over if the other guy was packin. You gave him the bird and then pulled a gun on him. He pulls his gun and actually pulls the trigger. Your not around to give your side of the story. His side of the story is sounding pretty good by this time.

Maybe if your going to go around flipping people off you should leave your gun at home. I know your little story seems to have gone over well, but I just threw up in my mouth a little. Are you French. One our GI's to boot. WTF

I'd say I'm sorry now, but this is disgusting.

[RonMexico]

Ok you flipped a guy off then pulled a gun on him.

How would that go over if the other guy was packin. You gave him the bird and then pulled a gun on him. He pulls his gun and actually pulls the trigger. Your not around to give your side of the story. His side of the story is sounding pretty good by this time.

Maybe if your going to go around flipping people off you should leave your gun at home. I know your little story seems to have gone over well, but I just threw up in my mouth a little. Are you French. One our GI's to boot. WTF

I'd say I'm sorry now, but this is disgusting.

Agreed

[10mm-man]

but I just threw up in my mouth a little.

GROSS!!

[Birddog1911]

First, you might get off of your high horse a little. I've spent the last 20 years serving myself.

Secondly, I've said from the beginning that I was wrong for giving him the bird. But the guy ran more than 100 yards to catch up to me, as I was leaving the area. I was stopped in my vehicle due to traffic in front of me, and the next thing I see is him charging the vehicle. I pulled my handgun to protect myself from an unknown danger. Had he had a firearm, things would have been much worse.

You can go back to feeling self righteous now.

Ok you flipped a guy off then pulled a gun on him.

How would that go over if the other guy was packin. You gave him the bird and then pulled a gun on him. He pulls his gun and actually pulls the trigger. Your not around to give your side of the story. His side of the story is sounding pretty good by this time.

Maybe if your going to go around flipping people off you should leave your gun at home. I know your little story seems to have gone over well, but I just threw up in my mouth a little. Are you French. One our GI's to boot. WTF

I'd say I'm sorry now, but this is disgusting.

[Ronin13]

I've been reading this and thought I would say my peace, and to the OP, good thing nothing bad happened to you or you didn't have to use your weapon. All the LEOs I know advise against flipping anyone off. In a driving situation, depending on the cop stopping you, you can be cited for instigation. It doesn't matter what the other guy did, if you get spotted flipping the bird to another driver and stopped that's what can possibly happen. I know I've done some single digit communication in some instances, but I mostly now refrain from it and just curse them vocally in my car. YMMV.