Posted on 04/08/2015 2:39:43 PM PDT by EBH
It is a decision law enforcement officials have to make in a split second. Is a weapon real or fake?
Earlier this week Cleveland police officers were faced with this type of incident at Mercedes Cotner Park. With the orange tip removed, would you be able to tell a real gun from a fake?
On Tuesday night a call came in for three juveniles flashing a gun.
We’ve learned the boys complied with police orders and were taken home to their parents. Possible charges for a facsimile firearm are pending.
So we are asking you, can you tell the difference? Take the quiz above to see.
Quiz at the website.
Easy test, all but one were colorful and therefore thrown in to slant the results for the uninformed masses.
The dead S.C. man ran, the cop shot him.
Whether justified or not will come out during the investigation.
The only time I ever got hassled by the police was when a psycho mom called them because I was walking down the sidewalk holding a bow and target arrows, oh yeah, I was nine years old! The sent four police cars to surround me, the damn city probably only had ten or twelve cars total.
What’s stopping someone from putting an orange tip on a real gun?
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That’s already happened. People have also hidden weapons inside super-soakers and such.
I should have been more elaborate with my post.
I was more directing it toward why is a cop presumed trustworthy with a gun at his side rather then the average Joe Blow. Living here in Vegas I occasionally see everyday folks carrying on their side, I’ve seen it cause a stir. Whereas an officer can walk in the same place with a weapon clearly visible and no one raises an eyebrow.
I wonder why sometimes.
It was Woody Allen with the soap gun.
Maybe because the cop is in uniform and a known public servant and the average Joe Blow carrying is an unknown.
Only the possessor of the weapon needs to know if it is a fake or not. The observer is the one meant to be fooled. If the observer is armed, and is fooled, you’re dead.
You mean gub?
Huh?
In other words the general public trusts the Government more then they trust their fellow man.
That is a scary proposition, though today it is understandable.....very sad though.
Arrows are lethal weapons. Ask a deer.
Why is a man in a uniform who is a government official immediately trusted with a weapon strapped to his side but you and I are perceived as a threat?
My dad who was a kid when Dillinger broke out told me the story at the time was that it was soap. Later on I heard wood.
Woody Allen carried a gub.
Precisely. Lol
The premise is flawed - Why would a cop, facing an aggressive suspect, be required to carefully scrutinize anything that appears to be a gun pointing at him? No cop should be responsible for the stupidity of suspects in split-second confrontations. Play stupid games; win stupid prizes.
If a cop shows up in a confrontational, emotionally charged situation, you had better not point a gun, knife, stick, cell phone, finger, *anything* at him. Right or wrong, you would do so at your deathly peril.
Not all cops are bad and some are true honorable heroes, well grounded and level-headed, cool under pressure and capable of reasonable discretion and an over abundance of common sense. However, there are a lot more Barney Fifes out there today than we should tolerate and they are panicky, knee-jerky, prone to being hot-headed and spastic. They seem to be forever on the lookout for plausible justification to get “badge-heavy” and go to their gun far too easily (may not shoot, but they are ready to the point of being hopeful). They are experts at “building probable-cause backwards”. You have to wonder, which one is answering your call?
Hey did you know that baseball bats, golf clubs and even tennis rackets are lethal? This was in the early sixties when this kind of thing was considered normal, not like now when everyone gets their panties in a twist
No, a police officer and anyone else for that matter is obliged to look at the overall context of the situation and determine if they or anyone else are in danger. And more precisely in most states if they are in imminent danger.
By your logic a police officer would be justified in assuming "danger" if he walked into the local gun store and saw the owner and a customer handling a firearm.
Just because you come across someone carrying a firearm doesn't mean you are in danger. Why around here we see people with firearms frequently. Sometimes they are even moving furtively through the woods in camouflage outfits. And sometimes you see them with a dead deer or turkey too.
It took me about the same. But 1.5 seconds will get you killed.
Three more miles up, and boom it’s a thunder storm. I roll another mile or so, wet and freezing, and pop a little hill for the LEO field sobriety check point. I’m covered in bug bits, got bat bits on the brain bucket, the bikes loaded with gear, I’m rolling 35mph in a 55, and I’m jack hammering from the cold wet Bama delights. I’ve got a pistol in one jacket pocket and a little flask of Makers Mark burbon in the other. This could get ugly. I have a cc permit from Florida, presumably reciprocal with Al., but the flask could be, uh, troublesome?
Young LEO, “license, registration etc!”
Older Leo, “this guys no trouble.”
Young LEO, “how do we know he’s no trouble?”
Older LEO “cause I said so.”
Me, “where’s the closest motel?” “Thanx!” “The rain is right behind me, y’all better gear up.
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