Trigger happy cops. Just looking for an excuse to shoot someone, even a little kid.
Do you really believe that?
Those cops have one primary job: Go home alive.
I don't care what information they were given ahead of time, it doesn't mean its verified/validated. If some crazed punk pointed what looked like a Beretta 92FS at me I'd drop the hammer on him too.
I don't think so fluffy.
If the cop were your husband or son, I doubt you'd be saying this.
Wasn't there an actor that was killed with one of these kind of guns? If it shoots anything, it must be considered a lethal weapon.
Cops totally correct here.
Give me a break. The kid new better than to take the gun to school. Call it what it was - suicide by cop. The minute the student pointed the gun at the cops he was toast. It was the correct call by the cops.
Bull. If someone pointed a gun at you, and someone else you did not know told you it was fake, would you take that chance?
This was a small town. These small town cops receive training about gun battles, terrorists, etc. They almost never get a chance to pull out their gun and fire it. So when their chance finally does arrive, they tend to be trigger happy. Remember Barney Fife. Sheriff Andy new about this tendancy and made him carry his bullet in his shirt pocket. Probably a pretty wise practice.
What a crock! Guy points a gun at a cop, guy dies. Guy points a gun a me, guy dies. It's very simple. Self defense is always grounds for lethal force.
Guy points a gun at you, assuming you're armed, I'll bet the guy dies then, too.
Cop-bashing with no reason just doesn't get it. Bash bad cops all you want. Don't bash cops who point a gun at them.
I'm thinking more along the line of a money happy lawyer.
It sounded like a suicide-by-cop and the cops were only too eager to oblige.
When Ralph Penley arrived at the school Friday to help police and school officials defuse the situation, he wasn't allowed inside, Nation said.
Nation said Ralph Penley was "angry" because he had spoken to police before he arrived at the school and told them Christopher did not have a real gun. Christopher's younger brother told school officials the same thing, Nation said.
Maybe they didn't get up in the morning looking for a kid to shoot, but they didn't exactly try to save his life, either.
Yep, patton, for 19 years I woke up every day saying, "This is the day I will finally ruin my life and reputation and my family's lives and reputations and take out some random kid. All I need is an excuse, dammit!"
/sarc
This a good compairison between the "airSoft" BB gun and real Beretta Model 92.
These guns are made to appear identical in every way. They are even designed to operate identically so the "fake" one is as close to the "real" one as possible. Firearms manufacturers are threatened with law suits because their "real" weapons are used to kill people but you only have outrage at the police when they are competently doing their jobs.
That is the dumbest, most lieberal, idiot thing I have heard today. I hope that was sarcasm. That is pure sickness otherwise. Just as the lieberals and commies called and call our soldiers murderers and worse, so that comment does the same to the police. It is: I hate the Police, therefore all poilce are homicidal maniacs looking for an excuse to kill. Ridiculous!
I guess you've never been in a life threatening situation. The fear can be overwhelming.
Somebody is going to have many sleepless nights from his conscience!