I forsee a toy gun ban... deputy shoots kid playing cops and robbers...

[marshaul]

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insane.kangaroo wrote:

>.> I've seen paintball guns are are made to be a realistic Glock or ar15 clone. If I were in he specific officer's shoes I wouldn't have taken the chance.

The kid may be some to blame, but realistically this comes down to parenting... Thats right... None of this "The XBOX will teach my kid" time.

Sure, and I've seen enough teenagers wielding these things that I'd like to think I could tell the two apart from context if nothing else.

Now, if the person's pretending they're about to shoot you with it, the context is going to lead you to respond with lethal force of your own. That's fine, and once again if that's what happened here the officer acted appropriately.

But most of the time I see people with hyper-realistic toy guns I am not compelled to kill them, even when they are pointed at me (there's that whole "body language" phenomenon, I suggest you check it out sometime).

And yes poor parenting is to blame. My parents always bought me colorful toy guns.