re: Two 10-year-old boys handcuffed and booked after playing with toy gun outside

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BS. Toys now a days have giant orange ends, there is no way for them to be mistaken for the real deal unless it is by an anti-gun leftist POS.

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I will be honest, I didn't read the whole thing, I missed the point about the nerf gun. Either way, I said that guns that look real. You can remove the orange part that shows its a toy gun, I have a nephew that has toy guns in which he removed the orange parts.. But he lives out in the country so its not like there are a bunch of people around who will think it is a real gun and start freaking out.

Yall are missing what I am saying..

I was just saying... in general.. if a toy gun looks real that is the ONLY reason I could see a policeman having any concern..

Does it look real? Real dangerous - hell yeah!

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MexicanTiger97

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Take it easy. No reason to get deported, Muchacho.

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Definitely was not a nerf gun, kind of looks like this one based on the news video. Still pretty obviously fake, but the snitch guy thought it was a BB gun

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It is obviously fake, but there are idiots out there. Lots of them.. And they will do shite like this guy did.. And there are idiot cops.. Like the ones who handled this situation..

This is the ONLY reason I am saying you have to be careful. You just don't know how people react. And you never know when some idiot cop will show up and draw his weapon. It seems far fetched, but cops have made worse mistakes.

Like when a woman called 911 because she was raped and when the cops showed up, she came to them and they ended up shooting her.

They have shot people who told them they do have a gun in the vehicle and that they were getting their license and when they went reach for the license.. The cops shot them.

I am not anti guns, but I am pro safety and you do have to factor in how other people will respond.

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Family says it took them a year and thousands of dollars in attorney fees to get it expunged. Insane that the cops didn't let them off with a warning

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You need understand that everyone has their fingers in the pie. The bail bondsman gets his cut, same with the lawyers. The city gets theirs too along with the courts. It’s one big fricking racket where you get to pay everyone’s cut, and then feel like you won something. Eventually it hits you that it never really mattered whether or not the law was on your side, because every person you encountered along your journey through the system fricked you out of the money in your pocket.

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In this day and age, it’s better to live by the “see something, say something” motto. These kids might have devilishly stuck orange tips on real weapons and were on their way to hold up a lemonade stand.

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You have difficulty understanding how firearms physically work? Plugging them with orange tips will hinder their ability to accurately shoot said lemonade stand attendant. I am very thankful I'm not living a life scared of life like I believe many in this country are. Truly thankful

If you pull out a machete in a moving elevator and wave it at people, that can be seen as threatening also. Just like all of your little scenarios, this is not what happened in this story, and has sweet frick-all to do with anything.

You came back and said you did not read that part of the story. The truth is, you didn't read any of it. You just came in barking from the part of the headline you did read.

Do better.

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Do better.

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Expect less.

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Thanks a lot, Bin Laden

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Eh, thank the government for never letting a tragedy going to waste and vastly increasing their power over the citizens. And for not preventing it despite trillions of dollars and countless amounts of invasion of privacy.