If your childs toy gun doesnt look like a toy

[Collier11]

you should probably take it away from them

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090511/ap_on_re_us/us_boy_shot

LA-area deputy shoots boy carrying toy handgun

PALMDALE, Calif. – Authorities say a 15-year-old boy who was shot while playing with a toy gun pointed the fake weapon at sheriff's deputies.

Los Angeles County sheriff's Deputy Jeff Gordon says the boy was hospitalized in stable condition Monday and was expected to fully recover. His name was not released.

Gordon says authorities received reports of someone on a bicycle brandishing a handgun Sunday in Palmdale, north of Los Angeles. He says deputies spotted the rider and ordered him to drop the weapon, but that the boy pointed it at them instead. A deputy then shot the boy.

Gordon says the gun resembled a black semiautomatic pistol and lacked the orange tip found on most toys to distinguish them from real weapons.

[sooner_born_1960]

On the flip side, be sure and paint the end of your barrel orange on your real guns.

[Collier11]

good point, lol

[badger]

why don't kids play with these anymore?

http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2008/02/super-soaker-jj-001.jpg

[jkjsooner]

why don't kids play with these anymore?

http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2008/02/super-soaker-jj-001.jpg

Because someone spread an urban legend about people filling them with acid and stupid people believed it.

[soonerfan28]

Do you really need to take a toy gun away from a 15 year old. DUMBASS!

[Collier11]

I hope you are kidding, but then again you are the eternal apologist

[C&CDean]

This kid should have been shot. This kind of stupid needs to get weeded out of the gene pool.

[yermom]

15 is way old enough to know better

orange tip or not, if there isn't much light, or a glare, or whatever, you don't have a lot of time to make a decision if someone is in the process of pointing a gun at you

[Curly Bill]

This kid should have been shot. This kind of stupid needs to get weeded out of the gene pool.

Yup.

[NormanPride]

Holy crap, talk about a moron. Never ever point anything resembling a weapon at law enforcement.

[TMcGee86]

I had to look back and see if the kid was 15 years or 15 months the way the article was written.

I dont call a teenager aiming a fake gun at police "playing with a toy gun"

Dude's lucky to be alive.

[Curly Bill]

This isn't a "gun issue," or even a "toy gun issue." It's a "stupidity" issue.

[soonerfan28]

If this kid at 15 isn't bright enough to not point a toy gun at a law enforcement officer then he needed to be shot.

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

How many 15 year old play with toy guns? The kid ain't right, I was trying to get girls to play with my toy gun when I was 15.

[olevetonahill]

The Kid Must be retarded, There is No other excuse for pointing anything remotely resembling a weapon at the PoPos who have ordered you to Put It down and they have their Toys out and aimed at you .

[StoopTroup]

If this kid at 15 isn't bright enough to not point a toy gun at a law enforcement officer then he needed to be shot.

Seriously?

[olevetonahill]

Seriously?

Obviously said by some one whos never been shot :rolleyes:

[CrimsonJim]

Obviously said by some one whos never been shot :rolleyes:

or REshot

[StoopTroup]

Reshot sucks....lol