POLITICS - Toy Gun ban!!

Welcome to the Leverguns.Com Forum. This is a high-class place so act respectable. We discuss most anything here ... politely.

Moderators: AmBraCol, Hobie

Forum rules
Welcome to the Leverguns.Com General Discussions Forum. This is a high-class place so act respectable. We discuss most anything here other than politics... politely.

Please post political post in the new Politics forum.
Post Reply
El Mac
Levergunner 2.0
Posts: 483
Joined: Fri Aug 31, 2007 7:54 pm
Location: Colorado! (i.e., North Texas)

POLITICS - Toy Gun ban!!

Post by El Mac »

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354071,00.html
Top
User avatar
Hobie
Moderator
Posts: 13903
Joined: Sat Mar 31, 2007 1:54 pm
Location: Staunton, VA, USA
Contact:
Contact Hobie

Post by Hobie »

It was behavior that got those people killed. They behaved like criminals. No cop ever drew down on me when I was running around with a BB gun (even a real gun) when I was a kid.

Yes, I know you know. The darn thing just got me riled... :oops:
Sincerely,

Hobie

"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend." Robert Louis Stevenson
Top
El Mac
Levergunner 2.0
Posts: 483
Joined: Fri Aug 31, 2007 7:54 pm
Location: Colorado! (i.e., North Texas)

Post by El Mac »

I used to walk the roads in East Texas hunting rabbits and the like with a .22 rifle or pistol when was a kid. Never got bothered by anyone...

Sad world we live in...
Top
User avatar
J Miller
Member Emeritus
Posts: 14906
Joined: Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:46 pm
Location: Not in IL no more ... :)

Post by J Miller »

Hobie wrote:It was behavior that got those people killed. They behaved like criminals. No cop ever drew down on me when I was running around with a BB gun (even a real gun) when I was a kid.

Yes, I know you know. The darn thing just got me riled... :oops:
Yep, that just about sums it up for me too.

Joe
***Be sneaky, get closer, bust the cap on him when you can put the ball where it counts ;) .***
Top
Bullard4075
Senior Levergunner
Posts: 1283
Joined: Thu Sep 06, 2007 11:14 pm
Location: Billings, Montana

Post by Bullard4075 »

I'm not a LEO or have a background in LE so bear with me here.
Describe for me please an example where a LEO would be shooting so fast as to shoot someone with a toy gun.
Wouldn’t this come under the heading of being sure of your target ?
"A large bureaucracy, once established, turns away from whatever task it is supposed to do and instead works mainly at administering itself. Max Weber
Top
jkbrea
Senior Levergunner
Posts: 1314
Joined: Tue Dec 18, 2007 6:37 pm
Location: Wyoming

Post by jkbrea »

Bullard4075 Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 9:04 pm Post subject:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I'm not a LEO or have a background in LE so bear with me here.
Describe for me please an example where a LEO would be shooting so fast as to shoot someone with a toy gun.
Wouldn’t this come under the heading of being sure of your target ?


If someone is drawing or pulling it out while the officer is telling him to freeze or if someone is pointing it at him or someone else.
Top
Post Reply

Return to “General Discussion”