Folks, he is not talking about this being a good idea for criminals. For them, a toy gun, BB gun, AirSoft, etc. is stupid.
For the rest of us who are the potential targets of these criminals, ask your self, with which weapon would you prefer your assailant to be armed”
1) BB gun
2) .357 S&W
3) rubber knife
4) Kabar
5) Toy cap pistol
6) .44 Ruger Blackhawk
7) Scary looking airsoft gun
8) 9mm Glock
If you chose any of the ODD answers, you get the point of the article. If you chose any of the EVEN answers you either are thinking like a criminal or you have a death wish.
And so here we are needlessly discussing how to encourage criminals to carry non weapons which still justify killing them for. Choose the even numbers and you have a death wish; choose the odd and you want to kill without consequence. Stupid, f-ed up question.
What I want is for criminals to NOT COMMIT CRIMES, with real or toy guns. We achieve this in part by having real guns ourselves, raising the stakes to making them risk death for actions not worth it.
If you go “encouraging” them in law to use toys, then you’ll follow with arguments derived from that. “Your honor, in good faith my client followed the spirit of the law and did not use a real gun, so should not suffer penalty intended for use of real guns” and far more stupid reasoning that we’d now have to cope with, confusing bad law further. And victims come to learn to expect toys instead of real guns, trivializing real dangers.
My word this meme is stupid.