Wow. As someone that played “cops and robbers” or simply “guns” as we called it when I was a kid, I recall it being decidedly less lethal even with more realistic looking toy guns.
The cops always say they were drawn on first. Hmm..
You obviously don't know much about Palmdale. South Central Los Angeles mitigated their drug/gang problem by paying families of gang members to move to outlying cities like Palmdale. Palmdale now has one of the worse gang/drug problems in the state.
A 15-year old points a gun at you and you don't fire at your peril. Many of these 15-year olds are not children by any measure other than age. They are street wise and dangerous.
i’d love for you to meet some of the people who are robbed a gunpoint (real guns) by 15 year-olds (and younger) in my city. changes people’s minds real quick about these ‘kids.’