Davis, that was incredibly dangerous

I understand what you were doing, making a point while taking control of the situation by keeping your friend psychologically off guard. But while stunts like that may work temporarily, the effects can actually hurt you in the long run, making your friend doubt what he thought he knew about you, first with the seriousness of the revelation, and then with unsettling extreme with which you went to talk to him. It can make you seem unstable, and with the precarious position that MAAs must place themselves in to let friends or family members into their trusted circle, doubt is not something that you should want to instill in a person.

I am very glad that you are okay and that things seemed to work out for now, but please be more careful in the future. You do not need to go to such lengths to assert you worthiness: you are worth very much regardless.

By the way, just a quick question: You say that you and your friend shot targets for a while before you positioned yourself to speak to him, but by the time you picked up his gun it was not loaded. Care to explain?