“1. There are cops in America so damned stupid they will think this is a real gun.”
There are people in America that are so damned stupid they won’t know this is the intent.
Make no mistake. I am laughing at you.
This was a typical activity during my childhood. The time of the Watts riots, the weathermen, Kent State, and the SLA.
The people who we allowed to be in law enforcement then could tell the difference between a gun, and not-a-gun. You and your compadres can't.
No amount of shrill carrying on by your bunch will bring me around to thinking that the people who share your lack of visual perceptive ability don't need to be excluded entirely from law enforcement.