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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Nov 18, 2021 11:33:37 GMT -5
www.pennlive.com/news/2021/11/pennsylvania-teen-had-his-hands-up-when-killed-by-state-police-new-videos-show.htmlOnly in America can cops kill you to prevent you from killing yourself and all your superiors are like "righteous kill bro!". This kid obviously had a whole mess of problems. In a country that spends almost a trillion dollars a year on defense, we have epidemic levels of mentally unstable people going unsupervised and untreated because of a tragic lack of a plan and the resources to help them. Right now today though, they need to stop making toy guns or require them to be built and or painted in such a way that makes them easy to identify and impossible to make look real full stop. I would support fully banning them all including bb guns, paint guns, or anything that simulates a firearm. The second amendment does not apply. There was at least one trained crisis officer on the scene but it appears the "corporal" with 20 years experience could not differentiate a threat from a desperate cry for help.
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Post by minx on Nov 18, 2021 12:03:28 GMT -5
Agreed on all counts.
Neighbor bought his kids airsoft rifles back in the day. We all told him that it was dangerous in a subdivision - not enough space to safely shoot, but he ignored us. HIS boys were responsible. Of course they just left them in the garage, and the kids never shut the door after coming home from school. Other neighbor went in and took one and was jokingly pointing it at the other neighborhood kids (most of whom did not think it was funny). Gun went off and fortunately did not hit anyone.
I ended up with the joy of explaining to neighbor that the guns needed to be secured (other neighbors were to pissed off to speak coherently). Told him I called the sheriff himself and he told me that as far as they were concerned, a gun was a gun. If someone called 911, they were going to treat the airsoft rifle the same as a regular rifle and arrest the kid. Cause waiving a gun around and threatening others was illegal. And if anything did happen that resulted in a serious injury, neighbor was liable and would lose his shirt when the other parents sued. Sorry, but that's the reality.
Don't know what happened with the rifles, but they were never seen again.
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Nov 18, 2021 12:31:00 GMT -5
There would be a significant number of kids especially not shot by the police if they either didn't exist or were made so that they could not be confused with the real thing. That could be done today.
When I was a kid it was finger guns and stick guns for playing army or cops n robbers. We never even had the old cap guns even though we had 100s of the caps.
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Post by minx on Nov 18, 2021 13:21:44 GMT -5
I think at one time we may have had the cap guns, but they broke pretty easily. And smashing the caps themselves was so much more satisficing.
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Nov 18, 2021 14:50:25 GMT -5
The whole 500 pack + big ass rock= FIREBALL
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Post by bobathon on Nov 18, 2021 15:03:46 GMT -5
Roll of caps and big honking ball peen hammer = ringing ears
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Post by minx on Nov 18, 2021 16:11:59 GMT -5
Yes to the fireball! It was an awesome thing!
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