implied threat

If I was looking out my door and see 12 people carrying military style rifles I would feel threatened , how about you? implied threat or just being good ole boys?

PHOENIX - About a dozen people carrying guns, including one with a military-style rifle, milled among protesters outside the convention center where President Barack Obama was giving a speech Monday — the latest incident in which protesters have openly displayed firearms near the president.
In the 1970's a young 17 year old came out of the hill in Carroll co. to our town. He got cross ways with our local cops and they beat him and sent him home to the hills. That Saturday his uncle and father appeared in our town both men were carrying hunting rifles over their shoulders. They did not speak to any one, they just walked around on the side walks. Our local law left town until the men went back to the hills. Our law knew what a implied threat was.