We must ban pellet guns
Police shooting at a school of a teenager who was brandishing a gun. Turns out it was a pellet gun. Good shoot, but tragic. If someone is pointing a gun at you assume it is a gun and act accordingly.
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January 5th, 2012 at 10:29 am
I noticed something in the article that surprised me: they only fired three shots, and hit him twice. Of course, the parents complain of excess force, and demand the officers be punished, which doesn’t surprise me at all.
January 5th, 2012 at 12:24 pm
The parents, I can understand them questioning the death of their child. I would likely do the same, even if it were obvious that it was justified. After all, he is your kid. The thing that surprises me is the idiot in the comments who says that all cops should be disarmed to prevent this sort of thing, and that it “works in England.”
January 5th, 2012 at 1:24 pm
I’m with the Cops on this one. Kid brought Gun to School, and at his age, he knew the Rules. Did he think pointing a Gun at a Cop would get him Detention?
January 5th, 2012 at 1:54 pm
That is exactly like the story of the death of someone in my graduating class. Very smart kid though at some point a few screws came loose. The courts were involved but no one really tried to actually get him the help he needed.
It ended horribly, yet I didn’t fault the police when I first read about it and I still can’t fault them now. He pointed a pellet gun that was modeled to look like a Desert Eagle at the officers.
Hind sight is 20/20 and when examining a shoot you can’t use hind sight, you have to use the information available to the individual at the time.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:34 pm
should have been 3 out of 3.
January 5th, 2012 at 5:26 pm
More surprised it wasn’t two out of 34.
January 5th, 2012 at 9:06 pm
I’ve been thinking about this story since I first read about it in the news late last night.
It seems to my reading that the situation was orchestrated by the kid from the start. He created a ‘situation’ at the school that guaranteed an armed police response. He was ordered to drop his very realistic gun. He instead aimed it at the police. I have not heard that he fired on the police. I suspect not. If my suspicion is true, actually harming anyone else was not his real intent. He escalated the situation to the point where the police had no other alternative but to shoot him. As much as I hate to suggest it, this has all the signs I would expect to see in a deliberate attempt to achieve what did in the end happen. I believe this was in reality a case of Suicide by COP.
I feel for the kid’s parents. And especially for the officer(s) that pulled the trigger. They had no way of knowing that it was only a pellet gun and the situation was created to prevent their finding out until after the fact.
But I also have to feel bad for the kid. Whatever his situation may have been, and I’ve seen no hint as to what that might have been in the media, he chose a permanent solution to what was almost certainly a temporary problem.
And everyone looses in the end.
January 5th, 2012 at 11:50 pm
I understand the parents being upset and saying bad things about the cops, but the cops could not tell if it was real or not and they shoot till the threat is neutralised.
Sad. I’m sure the kid thought he would ‘scare’ some people there. Well he did. Scared them till they killed him.
January 6th, 2012 at 10:27 am
As much as I love to bash cops that use excessive force and openly violate the civil rights of others, this officer was in the right. If a gun is pointed or going to be pointed at you you have milli-seconds to react, and when the kid swung and pointed the gun the officer made the correct decision to open fire. I have read many people on other sites state that he should have shot him in the leg, but I disagree, you shoot to stop the threat, not to carefully wound.
January 7th, 2012 at 11:25 am
I feel so terrible for the officers involved. This is the worst possible nightmare for them.