[GovernmentShrinker]

It's a reference to people (including some minors) being shot by police or their intended victims, when the latter saw a toy gun being pointed at them and thought it was real.

But the moral of the story, of course, should be that if you don't want your kids to get shot, then you better make sure they aren't roaming the streets with realistic looking toy weapons, and staging hold-ups (which are often real, not pretend). IMO kids who are doing this sort of thing are no great loss to society anyway, as they will almost certainly graduate to committing crimes with real guns in short order.

[metesky]

Oh, I know what they meant, but it's not what they said.