I get it, you are the worst kind of 2ndA supporter.
You see ‘threats’ that aren’t there to justify your fear of someone who is simply carrying.
That is exactly NOT what I am saying, and I don't see any reason to keep clarifying.
Gun control advocates go about wanting to infringe upon a person' right to arms in very much the same way that hate speech folks want to abridge others' right to freedom of speech,
inasmuch as thy perceive that some SPEECH is threatening to others and therefore not subject to protection. They try to extend this concept to a person's right to carry a weapon
on their person as somehow a kind of "threat" to others, and therefore, not to be protected.
Some rights have limits, and ones that reasonable people accept. For example, if you go into a local bar and call them all a bunch of queers - and they beat the sh!t out of you -
there's a good chance the judge won't rule in your favor, because picking a fight - "fighting words" - is not a use of speech protected under the law. You provoked them.
Deliberately. Leftie snowflakes are trying to claim that walking about with a MAGA hat or flying a Confederate flag constitutes the same kind of insult worthy of absolving reprisals
against such people.
Actually they go so far as - being "offended" is enough to warrant an infringement on your God-given and constitutionally protected rights.
Which it isn't. Because there's no end to what people will claim "offends" them.
So in my observation - simply CARRYING a weapon does not constitute a threat - but threatening people with it - IS.
Especially if you not only threaten, but you or your organization has the habit of actually using them against people.