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In reply to the discussion: Ohio boy, 13, shot and killed by police after pulling out BB gun [View all]Sunlei
(22,651 posts)8. I don't understand why a BB gun is considered a toy. I wouldn't want to stand in front of that toy
On the other hand, police are to aggressive approaching people trying to escalate them to run away in fear.
IMO, it's like police are trying to "flush" people so they can make an arrest for something, anything.
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"Shot multiple times." Can we ban BB guns, or does the NRA stand in the way of that, too?
lostnfound
Sep 2016
#1
I'm seriously asking how can we stop kids from getting executed for a legal object on their person
lostnfound
Sep 2016
#33
Exactly. Who knows whether to believe them, if they routinely allow cover ups by their peers?
lostnfound
Sep 2016
#10
You claim to reflexively not believe the cops -- unless it's about guns.
Nuclear Unicorn
Sep 2016
#14
Chicago has long had one of the lowest rates of legal gun ownership in the United States.
benEzra
Sep 2016
#40
I don't understand why a BB gun is considered a toy. I wouldn't want to stand in front of that toy
Sunlei
Sep 2016
#8
Actual BB guns aren't toys. Airsoft plastic-pellet guns *can* be toys, but aren't always.
benEzra
Sep 2016
#31
Interesting Opinion:"why I don't believe a word police say immediately after they kill someone"
mackdaddy
Sep 2016
#17
+1, we've now been conditioned not to believe them seeing some cities don't have good leadership
uponit7771
Sep 2016
#35
Unbelievable. It's got a lot of replica features of a real pistol that a B.B. gun doesn't need.
Calista241
Sep 2016
#27
Thanks, BenEzra, for that instructive short discussion of types of BB guns etc.
ColemanMaskell
Sep 2016
#36
Would it have been "okay" if the kid had a real gun? Or if the kid was 6 years old?
ColemanMaskell
Sep 2016
#38
Fair enough if the kid had been brought to trial instead of executed extrajudicially
ColemanMaskell
Sep 2016
#51