Best case scenario you are willingly placing yourself in a situation where you forsee the "need" to use a deadly weapon. But in that case there is no need to brandish that gun unless you want others to know you could kill them and planned for that by choosing to bring a gun which is intimidation. Especially if you are in a large crowd where people have to trust that you wont go apeshit in a place they cant escape from.
The article specifically says she did no such thing. “At no point in time was anyone menaced or injured as a result of her possessing the firearm”
As I said, one may exercise 1st Amendment rights and 2nd Amendment rights at the same time. They are not mutually exclusive.
Best case scenario you are willingly placing yourself in a situation where you forsee the "need" to use a deadly weapon. But in that case there is no need to brandish that gun unless you want others to know you could kill them and planned for that by choosing to bring a gun which is intimidation. Especially if you are in a large crowd where people have to trust that you wont go apeshit in a place they cant escape from.