Woman pulls gun on driver after road rage incident

[redaddiction]

Originally Posted by Gerald

I have been around guns and shot them and hunt many times a year for about 60 years...... but have a question about this situation.

This write-up does not say "exactly" what the women did with the gun to get arrested.

So my question is: If a person [in a similar situation] had a gun and just picked up the gun .... not pointing the gun at the other person.... to show the other person that they had a gun, would this be against the law?

Yes.

Brandishing a weapon is against the law.

[marty f]

Originally Posted by redaddiction

Yes.

Brandishing a weapon is against the law.

BINGO!

Now if you and I are buds and I show you my gun, and you show me yours, no but Im not going to do that in a parking lot either.

If Im in a conflict and I wanna show you how bad I am and show you my heater, in a parking lot, YES that's against the law, which it seems shes doing, showing her bad self

IDIOT!!, that's a good way to get her self shot by a law abiding citizen feeling threatened and the need to protect them self

[fishfighter]

she is lucky she didn't get shot, it's sad though if the person she pulled the gun on would have shot her he would have been arrested

[Matt G]

Originally Posted by Gerald

I have been around guns and shot them and hunt many times a year for about 60 years...... but have a question about this situation.

This write-up does not say "exactly" what the women did with the gun to get arrested.

So my question is: If a person [in a similar situation] had a gun and just picked up the gun .... not pointing the gun at the other person.... to show the other person that they had a gun, would this be against the law?

Originally Posted by redaddiction

Yes.

Brandishing a weapon is against the law.

There is no brandishing law in Louisiana, hence the aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charge.

It has to do with intent.... Obviously her intent was to intimidate the other driver with the firearm which is considered assault. Assault is defined in RS 14:36 as "an attempt to commit a battery, or the intentional placing of another in reasonable apprehension of receiving a battery." The firearm made it a felony. I'd be willing to bet the guy in the car with her is the one that handed her the gun.