So, the 13 year old boy was shot 7 times by one cop

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142. Rights? good for you that you think rights can be gotten this way

You are going to make sure all police have psychic training in being able to tell the difference between toy and real weapons?

Who does't want police violence and overreaction to stop? Join the very big club, we all do. Everyone does.

In the meantime, keep realistic looking toy weapons away from people. This is not victim bashing, this is preventative maintenance in the society. Don't run around with assault weapon look a likes near the pot growers. Do you know how many and how violent these characters are? They are dotted all around this part of the state and they have these weapons and use they them.

And in our area we have lots of illegal pot growers and they shoot people all the time. The police deal with lots of very strange situations here. This situation smacks of a policemen that totally misread the situation and overreacted brutally.

I keep sheep on my farm (only a few hundred), but my friend with a few thousand has 17 guardian dogs who stay with her sheep to protect them from predators such as coyotes and bobcats and mountain lions. Guess who kills her dogs? She finds them shot up with machine guns. These gangs of illegal pot growers are pretty ruthless and they sneak onto public and private lands, spread pollution and waste all over the place and park a few young guys with machine guns around to protect the grows. If you don't think this effects law enforcement and the firefighters and county workers, think again. it changes the mood into a pretty fearful one.

A neighbor a few years ago went nutty shooting a high powered rifle down the road at imaginary guys coming up to steal his stuff. He was a white guy. The county sent a swat team of 4 law enforcement officers to my house and they VERY CAREFULLY went to his place and arrested him. But it could have been a big shoot out, and I could not get away because he was shooting the road and anyone driving up and down it. These officers were terrified, they acted all tough, but they were really really scared. So was I. And so you take someone who has had too many of these sorts of incidents and you couple it with a mass shooting the day before and you get a gigantic mistake that took a wonderful child's life. If you don't want this to happen to your kid, make sure he or she does not have realistic looking guns. This is common sense. I am sorry that you do not see it that way.

Why make your kid a target for such digressions? What is so incredibly important about playing with realistic looking weapons that you would advocate risking kids lives over it? Seriously, I have no idea what is so important about playing with realistic looking guns.

And if you can figure out how to keep the police from overreacting and making mistakes, my hat is off to you.

In the meantime, normal people try to figure out how to muddle through it all. And for us, here, we keep weapons and look alike weapon toys away from kids. And typing "seven times" one hundred times will not bring this poor child back, nor will it change the situation that police armed with weapons can and do over react, can and do make mistakes and some of them are brutal just waiting to explode. But most are hard working people caught up in very wild and dangerous circumstances trying to protect their communities and make a decent living with benefits.