[GeronL]

nobody deserves to die for carrying a BB gun

[2ndDivisionVet]

Why did he pull it out of his waistband when the police arrived?

[gogeo]

nobody deserves to die for carrying a BB gun...

Hmmm...I've carried BB guns before, and never been killed.

Is it possible there were other factors involved?

[fini]

Unfortunately a lot of real guns look like fake guns, e.g. look at a Hi-Point. And a lot of BB guns look like real guns. When I was a kid, 40 years ago, I had a BB gun that looked just like a 1911, unless you looked carefully at the end of the barrel.

Also kids are now killing people, so it really is hard to tell what is going on.

Also people do stupid stuff. A neighbor of mine has an AR15 and he painted the flash suppressor neon red, just like an air-soft rifle. He thought it was real funny until the rest of us piled on and treated him like the jerk he was acting like.

[grania]

nobody deserves to die for carrying a bb gun

Wait for the facts. What's emerging from the local TV news is that what happened is horrible but understandable.

Students in Cleveland schools know better. They've all been through classroom sessions with gang unit police. They go through metal detectors and have the book bags checked every day when they go to school. If the child was pointing the gun at people and the band identifying it as fake was removed, one has to wonder about his intent.

[publius911]

nobody deserves to die for carrying a BB gun

That's an opinion subject to conflicting opinions which are just as valid.

Please feel free to limit exercising that opinion only when your life is on the line, and no one else's.

[waterhill]

Well they shoot unarmed canines all the time and get away with it! /s