No.13727
File: 1719847212960.jpg (192.15 KB, 1080x1887, 360:629, Screenshot_20240701_101820….jpg) ImgOps Exif Google
Last Friday night, a thirteen-year-old kid in New York State was playing outside with a realistic looking toy designed to replicate a Glock 17 type handgun. He was with another young boy outside. After nearby cops mistook the two for adults, the kid apparently appeared to pull the pellet gun as if it was a real weapon. He is now dead at the hands of the then (in my opinion, justifiably) terrified police officers.
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/30/nx-s1-5024161/utica-police-shooting-nyah-mwayWhat should be done to prevent tragedies such as these from happening? Isn't something significantly wrong when a fake firearm can be easily mistaken for a real one? Or maybe a ban just isn't workable? Perhaps it's even unethical? Even if these are decent toys for adults, well, how to deal with children using them?
Note that the screenshot here is from a hobbyist company that sells similar products.
No.13728
Legitimately, probably don't have toy guns. Not unless they're super soaker amounts of unrealistic. To reference Skyrim, of all things, in the first town you('re intended to) go to, one child talks to another about his great plan to scare everyone by dressing his dog up as a giant spider. The girl notes, rightfully, that the only options are either no one will be scared because the costume won't be convincing, or the costume will be convincing and they will kill the boy's dog. The former is acceptable, the latter obviously is not. Don't allow children to look threatening, and if you're an adult, don't allow yourself to look threatening.
No.13732
>>13727Sounds like a parenting issue, not really a toy issue.
At 13 years old, you'd have to be pretty stupid to point anything that looks like a weapon at our trigger happy modern cops.
Then again, this is New York, so for all I know they could've planted it and made up a story...
