“A Minnesota man is charged with two felonies after police say he admitted to pointing a shotgun at his neighbor over how he was teaching his daughter to ride a bike.

Sixty-one-year-old Gary Eugene Drake, of Rosemount, faces one count of second-degree assault and one of making terroristic threats in the May 25 incident. That night, Drake told police he was upset over how his neighbor was treating his daughter and pointed a shotgun at him. When being arrested, he said, “Maybe next time I should have shot him.”

“It makes absolutely no difference under the law, if you point a gun, whether it’s loaded or unloaded, it’s still assault in the second degree — assault with a deadly weapon,” said James Backstrom, the Dakota County Attorney.”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from Bill Hudson / CBS Minnesota:
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2014/06/02/cops-man-threatened-to-shoot-neighbor-over-bike-riding-lesson/