Oh wow, now the kids was unarmed?
Funny, the local news here in Orlando is saying different. But the kids lawyer might say he was unarmed.
If I am a cop, and I am called to a school - where a kid who a year previous had made a bomb threat there - had a gun that was modified by this kid to resemble a semi-auto handgun and had put if to another kids head, had held him hostage and then pointed the gun directly at me (the cop) after he was told multiple times to drop it, you think I wouldn't shoot?
If it HAD been a 9mm and the kid had shot the place up, would you have wanted the police to stand by and then be able to say "well, gee. We thought it was a BB Gun. It sure looked like one".
Cops ENFORCE THE LAW. Thats why they are called "LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS"
But that doesn't matter I guess.
It matters a lot. The grief that is felt by everyone is heartwrenching. I contend that we must have an honest discourse about how appropriate it is to send SWAT into a school; and when that is the best decision. The alternative is to turn our schools into the same facilities as a penal institution. That is good with some. It shall never be good with me. Let our esteemed congress declare that no citizen within 1000 yards may posess a weapon. For the children. And *who* shoots the kids?