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CA: Toy guns and real-life tragedies
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Mark A. Taff
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Should police officers making life-and-death decisions in a split-second be forced to distinguish between a real gun and realistic looking toy?
California lawmakers finally said no after the 2013 death of Andy Lopez in southwest Santa Rosa.
Lopez was carrying a replica AK-47, but the orange tip signifying a toy was gone, and Deputy Erick Gelhaus mistook it for a real assault weapon and shot the 13-year-old boy.
The shooting sent shockwaves across Sonoma County, but the circumstances are distressingly common across the country. Researchers with ties to law enforcement identified replica firearms as a public safety threat more than a quarter-century ago, but Congress failed to act on the warning —with deadly consequences. |
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mickey
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| Should police officers continue to jump into unknown situations in order to claim a need to make a 'split second' decision on who to kill? |
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