Hmmmmmmm, could be!
The market for adolescent slingshots should go up. Watch the trends little guys (and girls).
Trying to hold someone up with a passable fake just might get someone shot.
Every state varies, but here (ND) the reasonable belief that you were in immediate danger of serious injury or death is cited in the Century Code as reason for the employment of lethal force.
A question this story brought to mind earlier today. Would it be illegal to paint the end of the barrel of a real gun bright orange?
Europe leads,
and the Constitution bleeds.
Maybe.
Pretty much off topic, but I went to purchase a .22 rifle yesterday. While I’ve done the paperwork before, it’s still mind-boggling the amount of government needed to allow me to buy a squirrel gun.
The Founding Fathers would not recognize this place; not for our advances in technology, but our remission into authoritarianism.
Yeh. I’ve always had this image that one day I’d be working on the roof, and some idiot would call the cops reporting “man with a gun.”
The SWAT team pulls up with its M60 machinegun and mortar resolution team, spots me on the roof and opens fire to disarm me.
I tumble off the roof into the wife’s rose bushes, filled with about 250 high caliber holes.
A cop runs up and delivers a coup de grace. “Oh my God!” shouts the cop. “He’s got a 14 volt cordless screwdriver.” Another cop walks over and says “He shoulda called a professional roofer or used Stanley’s non-eletric ratchet screwdriver.”
Then we get this headline the next day: “Homeowner Screwed by Government Again.” And the next day the liberal legislature passes a bill outlawing cordless screwdrivers, and names it the sergeantdave cordless assault screwdriver ban.
My name ends up as the focus of millions of cynical aphorisms for next 10,000 years. Not a way I’d want to go.
I’m sorry but I don’t understand the problem. Shouldn’t we ISSUE fake guns that can’t shoot back to robbers, burglars and muggers???
Problem seems self correcting. Don’t point fake or real guns at the law or you’ll be dead.
As long as you aint stupid there is no safety issue here.
If you are stoopid. Stay in school.