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You two can't be serious.

Mark, showing a weapon in public, especially after claiming one has no problem shooting, is a threatening action. He didn't just say he was going to shoot the phone. He actually showed a gun. That is a threatening action. There is no loophole that would allow someone to pull out or flash a weapon and claim to only want to shoot one's own device. Any reasonable person would have immediately bent over backward to appease the person instead due to the threat imposed. If this person had no intention of threatening anyone, he could have said he was going to shoot his phone, not flashed his weapon as to not pose any threat to the employees, gone home, and followed through.

Grizzly, the manager and employee showed proper action. They were dealing with an irate customer who not only threatened to discharge a firearm, but proved he had one on him. Apple employees have been shot. The last time was only three months ago in Virginia. My fiance works at an Apple store where, just a few days ago, a customer had to be removed by security due to the physical threat he was posing to the employees in his anger. When someone is so angry they not only threaten to shoot an electronic but flash the weapon to do it, it is responsible to alert police.

Also, before you talk about others not learning to think for themselves, you need to go back to elementary school and learn such basics as capitalization, punctuation, spelling, etc.. You have at least six errors in your first line alone. One more error could potentially be debated. But perhaps you consider this to be "the ability to think for" yourself.