Sigh.
Really, Micro?
Yes, A one sentence test is henceforth able to determine justice in all conceivable situations. That's exactly what I meant.
Look up another couple posts:
Yes, threatening someone with a gun is usually illegal, but context still matters.
What I meant, which I thought was kinda obvious, was in determining what should be done about
this specific case of threatening we should look at the totality of the situation. Guy comes home, finds adultery, and finds that the other guy is a 14 YO boy. Threatens boy verbally, but
doesn't actually harm the boy. End of drama. I fail to see anything here that needs the justice system.
I also find it interesting that this entire forum will decry the stupidity of "Zero Tolerance" if a kid brings a toy gun to school, but is apparently unwilling to forgive an outburst from a man that just found his wife being banged by another man. If he had actually harmed the kid, or if he had fallowed or stalked the kid some way to make the threat I would be less willing to overlook it. But the totality of these circumstances, as reported in that article, don't IMO, require any legal intervention. I just don't expect anyone to be 100% calm and rational in every circumstance.