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Gun Grabbers Blame Toy Guns and Airsoft Guns For Police Shooting of 13-Year-Old
Officer is excused for shooting boy seven times
Kit Daniels
Infowars.com
October 29, 2013
Gun control activists in California are blaming toy guns and airsoft guns for the fatal police shooting of a 13-year-old on Oct. 23, shifting responsibility away from the police.
Andy Lopez Cruz was shot seven times in 10 seconds by a Sonoma Co., Calif. sheriff’s deputy as he walked down the street with a plastic replica rifle.
Laura Cataletta, an attorney with a gun control group, told KPBS that police have a hard enough job “without also having to also be able to quickly determine whether a gun is real or not real.”
California Legislature May Re-Visit Realistic Non-Lethal Gun Issue | KPBS.org
California already requires toy guns to be painted in bright colors or made transparent.
Police killing of boy renews debate on toy guns » Kitsap Sun
State Senator Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) is introducing a bill that would extend that regulation to BB and pellet guns as well.
“These guns don’t belong on the street,” Karen Caves, de León’s spokesperson, said to Time. Andy Lopez Shooting: 13-Year-Old's Death the Latest Fatal Police Fake Gun Mistake | TIME.com “They endanger children and they endanger police … You can simply paint them some bright fluorescent colors that will give police an opportunity to easily identify them for what they really are and avoid this type of tragedy.”
Cruz’s family and friends, on the contrary, said that the deputy who killed Cruz simply overreacted to a situation which did not require the use of deadly force.
“People have to do something,” Elbert Howard, a founding member of the Police Accountability Clinic and Helpline of Sonoma Co., said to Reuters. “He’s a child and he had a toy.”
“I see that as an overreaction to shoot him down.”
Unfortunately police overreactions occur all the time.
In North Carolina in Sept., a police officer shot an unarmed victim of a car accident 10 times after he sought help at a nearby house.
Officer shot unarmed man 10 times, police say
A month earlier, a young Blount Co., Tenn. deputy sheriff shot a 68-year-old Air Force vet in his own garage.
Louisville man shot, killed in his garage by Blount deputy
Back in May, two Ft. Worth, Texas police officers said they “felt threatened” when they gunned down a 72-year-old man in his own drive-way.
Police Shoot & Kill Grandfather While Responding To Burglary Call « CBS Dallas / Fort Worth
Across America, police overreaction and abuse of deadly force are the prevalent issues at hand, not replica guns meant for ages 10 and up.
This article was posted: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at 4:17 pm
Tags: constitution, domestic news, gun rights, police state
Officer is excused for shooting boy seven times
Kit Daniels
Infowars.com
October 29, 2013
Gun control activists in California are blaming toy guns and airsoft guns for the fatal police shooting of a 13-year-old on Oct. 23, shifting responsibility away from the police.
Andy Lopez Cruz was shot seven times in 10 seconds by a Sonoma Co., Calif. sheriff’s deputy as he walked down the street with a plastic replica rifle.
Laura Cataletta, an attorney with a gun control group, told KPBS that police have a hard enough job “without also having to also be able to quickly determine whether a gun is real or not real.”
California Legislature May Re-Visit Realistic Non-Lethal Gun Issue | KPBS.org
California already requires toy guns to be painted in bright colors or made transparent.
Police killing of boy renews debate on toy guns » Kitsap Sun
State Senator Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) is introducing a bill that would extend that regulation to BB and pellet guns as well.
“These guns don’t belong on the street,” Karen Caves, de León’s spokesperson, said to Time. Andy Lopez Shooting: 13-Year-Old's Death the Latest Fatal Police Fake Gun Mistake | TIME.com “They endanger children and they endanger police … You can simply paint them some bright fluorescent colors that will give police an opportunity to easily identify them for what they really are and avoid this type of tragedy.”
Cruz’s family and friends, on the contrary, said that the deputy who killed Cruz simply overreacted to a situation which did not require the use of deadly force.
“People have to do something,” Elbert Howard, a founding member of the Police Accountability Clinic and Helpline of Sonoma Co., said to Reuters. “He’s a child and he had a toy.”
“I see that as an overreaction to shoot him down.”
Unfortunately police overreactions occur all the time.
In North Carolina in Sept., a police officer shot an unarmed victim of a car accident 10 times after he sought help at a nearby house.
Officer shot unarmed man 10 times, police say
A month earlier, a young Blount Co., Tenn. deputy sheriff shot a 68-year-old Air Force vet in his own garage.
Louisville man shot, killed in his garage by Blount deputy
Back in May, two Ft. Worth, Texas police officers said they “felt threatened” when they gunned down a 72-year-old man in his own drive-way.
Police Shoot & Kill Grandfather While Responding To Burglary Call « CBS Dallas / Fort Worth
Across America, police overreaction and abuse of deadly force are the prevalent issues at hand, not replica guns meant for ages 10 and up.
This article was posted: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at 4:17 pm
Tags: constitution, domestic news, gun rights, police state
