Inappropriate and juvenile. You’re better than that @noahdjango
No one could unsee anything like that. Evar. 
Taste is a funny thing. One person’s masterpiece of body art is someone else’s source for bemusement over how heinous it is. 
You and I have different definitions of reasonable.
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His trees were threatening to damage public infrastructure. Maybe the utility workers should have threatened to shoot the property owner for interfering.
Seriously, those guys tend to get way more shit than they deserve already. The only time anyone notices the work they do is when a line goes down, and then they catch hell for letting it happen.
Be courteous to your local utility worker. They are the reason you have all the comforts of living in a first world country.
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Not half as crazy as calling out a SWAT team on a guy that did nothing to break the law. But sure, let’s just have gang of lunatics on a power trip point a bunch of guns at a man that even if he is an asshole, is an innocent asshole. As long as it makes you feel better.
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Having a gun is not a threat anymore than having a baseball bat, knife or any other weapon is a threat unless you threaten someone with it. Under that logic I suppose we shouldn’t let cops go around “threatening” everybody at all times.
Um. Not really. The vast majority of legal gun owners would stand between your trash talking self and those who would do you harm. Like say soldiers, cops and firemen. And they are willing to risk their lives for yours regardless of you calling them trash. So maybe you should show a little respect.
Speaking as someone who has been threatened many times by various non-gun lethal weapons (childhood; family members), I can tell you that a visible gun, even if not officially being pointed at me, is still much more threatening than seeing a knife, bat, or any of the other items once used to try to kill me. It’s an entirely different order of magnitude.
Even a trained police officer with a gun is more dangerous than one without. TV cop shows aren’t reality.
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The NRA are self-interested scumbags and I second @Ereiamjh 's accusation that they’re rotten trash.
I also notice you’ve ignored my rebuttal of your previous comment which addresses your bullshit answer to @duncancreamer. A gun visible in your waistband (not holstered as you’ve previously claimed) is an unspoken threat, especially if you’re yelling unintelligible shit at people.
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I can never envision a situation in the U.S. where a fireman or soldier would need to save me with a gun. Cop? Sure, but cops are supposed to have firearms by profession. I’m talking about loser white power NRA garbage. Not police, or “regular” gun owners for that matter. Your type (NRA fanatic) is more likely to end up terrorizing family members or school children somewhere rather than protecting anybody from any threat that hasn’t been imagined in some kind of insane fever dream.
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The guy has gone out of his way to broadcast that he is dangerous, and that he believes in committing arbitrary violence as a moral and political principle. He has gone out of his way to get a tattoo that can easily be mistaken for a weapon being carried in a reckless manner. He was shouting angrily, and shirtless in very cold weather, which suggests irrationality, and possibly that he was under the influence of PCP.
In short, any reasonable person in the position of those utility workers would have had abundant reason to believe they were in imminent danger of violent attack from this person, it’s entirely this guy’s fault that they got this impression, it’s entirely reasonable that they called the police, and, despite my strong distrust of the police and their propensity to overreact, it appears the police handled the situation reasonably well.
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The NRA isn’t a “white power” organization. I could draw you a Venn diagram where there would be a small middle part where “NRA member” and “white power believer” would overlap. Another diagram would show a large overlap of “NRA member” with “regular gun owner”. Actually, the NRAs newest commentator is the black Colion Noir, who has some absolutely brilliant talks.
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My type? NRA fanatic? Loser? White power? Making a awful lot of assumptions about someone you don’t even know. And I can assure you that while I do own firearms I have never terrorized anybody, except for possibly the enemies of our country as a soldier while defending your right to compare ordinary firearms owners to neo-nazis. And while I was at it I was also defending the rights of innocent people not to be harassed by the police while not committing a crime whether they are an asshole or not.
And for the record, I’ll be the guy standing between you and the shooter, and any other innocent person should such a situation arise.
You have obviously never hears of a inside the waistband holster?
https://www.google.com/search?q=inside+the+waistband+holster&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=sb#channel=sb&q=inside+the+waistband+holster&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&safe=off&tbm=shop
Oh and on the topic of “insane fever dreams” why don’t you ask the folks at Clackamas mall in Oregon, the people at the Chinese restaurant in Texas, the Dollar General in Alabama, or the people in the internet cafe in Florida how unlikely they think it is that a legal gun owner would stand up for them and confront an armed criminal? These examples and others don’t make the national news but it happens much more often than you think.
Nice try guy, they’re clearly not a common product. How many people with guns in their waistband have one of those and how many just tuck it in? Also how many people presume a guy with tats, no shoes and no shirt has one of those? No one who values their safety.
Guns, in the hands of anyone but police, are more likely to kill people than protect people. *
* Not applicable in America where police shoot people like crazy, which can’t possibly be because they’re dealing with a heavily armed populace, could it?
Aaaaaaaanyway, if you were to ask people from countries outside America if they’d rather have the freedom to own and shoot an unnecessary array of guns or the relative safety of their own countries where gun crime is so minimal it’s not even a background thought, I’d say most of them would choose safety. I say this as someone who is not American, has shot guns, is fascinated by weapons, precision engineering and explosions.
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but, but,
Im a pro-gun, pro-carry type but I am going to go ahead and agree with you on this one. Several mistake were made here, the first of which was someone with a pistol tat in their waste band acting a fool.
People felt threatened, the police showed up and sorted it all all out. Nobody got shot or arrested and the world moved on.
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Pro-gun, pro-carry guy here.
I agree with you. A misunderstanding occurred that could have been simply resolved with a civil discussion. Instead this obviously belligerent asshole wanted to make a scene( I would bet anyone an ice cold beer that he removed his shirt with the purpose of displaying his tats just prior to the encounter with the utility workers)
That a SWAT team showed up and pointed weapons at this jerk is simply justice.
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