Alahwahoo Whackbar?
Just a kid playing in the street, playing Cowboys Jihadhis and Indians.
Huge tragedy.
All three of them dumber than dirt, brandishing naked gun replicas around in the street.
I wonder if the parents knew the three boys had them?
They were carrying BB guns walking into a sports store, not playing cops & robbers with them. You are leaning over too far to whitewash this situation.
Carrying your premise out a bit anyone could decide someone was a threat & blow them away. Screaming orders at people and demanding those people follow them to the letter or shooting them 7 times w/o an actual threat to your or another’s life is insane. There was no eminent threat. The shooter should have called the police if he was concerned.
Were they brandishing? or was it open carry?