2nd Amendment group uses assault rifles to intimidate gun control supporters

[Beet]

Moms = givers, nurturers and sustainers of life
Guns = instruments of death, invented by the Chinese*

It's clear which of these two clearly opposed sides I am on.

* While the Chinese are, in general, a great peoples, the gun is one of their more unfortunate technologies that we have copied. (One day they may say the same about the knock-off iPhones they copy from us!)

[Beet]

Most reasonable people would argue that openly carrying a firearm in public is, by its very nature, intimidating.

Depends on how you're carrying it.

No it doesn't. When you keep a deadly weapon on your person and it is visible to others, you are sending the message to them that, "I could kill you if I wanted to." If that's not intimidating, I don't know what is.

Exactly. I feel uneasy walking past a policeman even in full uniform in D.C.

[Beet]

Most reasonable people would argue that openly carrying a firearm in public is, by its very nature, intimidating.

Depends on how you're carrying it.

No it doesn't. When you keep a deadly weapon on your person and it is visible to others, you are sending the message to them that, "I could kill you if I wanted to." If that's not intimidating, I don't know what is.

You don't then.  Intimidation would be sending the message "I could kill you and I want to."

No, that would be a threat. Literally, intimidate means "to make timid", presumably through a show of force.