This isn't true.
Point a gun AT someone, it is a threat.
It can be a BB gun or a fake gun.
Those are facts.
Here is an actual case where a fake gun holder was shot in self defense in Houston.
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"The Houston Restaurant Self-Defense Shooting: Neutralizing a Threat v. Killing a Criminal"
I'm delighted to pass along this item from T. Markus Funk, author of Rethinking Self-Defence: The 'Ancient Right's' Rationale Disentangled…reason.com
You could do a million different actions and that gun would NEVER be lethal.
Doesn't matter.
Sure it is. It still wouldn't give you the right to claim self-defense by definition. For the reasons I stated when I cited the self-defense laws in Texas.Point a gun AT someone, it is a threat.
So an inherently threatening action needs to be taken. Pointing a gun would qualify but ONLY if that pointing is not in response to any provocation.