Police release full video of shooting of Ohio boy, 12

[NightDragon83]

mornelithe said:

NightDragon83 said:

Serious_frusting said:
On in America. If they didn't have such stupid gun laws then the police and general public wouldn't be going around terrorising kids with toy guns. kmt

Um, what exactly do America's gun laws have to do with 12 year olds carrying around "toy" guns that are basically replicas of the real thing... and waving them around in public terrorizong OTHERS to the point that someone felt the need to call the cops in the first place??

It's not obvious?  The number of guns in circulation in the US is basically enough for every man woman and child to have one.  Given that fact, police unfortunately have to be hyper sensitive to any report of someone with a possible firearm.  Whereas, in countries where private firearm ownership are prohibited, or in the very least, highly restricted, it's reasonable to assume that the police wouldn't have to assume the worst every time they receive a report of a kid brandishing a firearm.

So if the authorites in a country where personal firearms are either prohibited or heavily restricted received a call that a young kid was brandishing one in public and appeared to be pointing it and waving it around at others in a threatening manner, they wouldn't have taken the report as seriously as officers in the US do?

You would think that authorities in other countries with restricted gun ownership would view it as an even bigger threat because the youth in question must've been up to some serious criminal activity if he was able to get his hands on a gun in the first place in one of those countries.