I don’t doubt the law identifies it as such. My point was that it’s not a firearm at that point. If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have?
The post was mostly tongue-in-cheek, poking fun at how as a nation we have managed to abandon common sense.
I understand a chain is only as strong as it’s weakest link, but I prefer the conservative approach of dealing with that single weak link rather than making all the other links as weak as that one.
The sad part of the story to me is that this poor kid’s life was made miserable by bullying. I had that problem for a couple of years at my school. Eddie Clay terrorized me at every opportunity. My father was livid when he found out, not at Eddie the bully, but at me for letting myself be bullied. I think I still bear the scars of that short period 50 plus years ago.
“My point was that it’s not a firearm at that point.”
Yeah, I think the real problem with this is that the kid brandishing the inoperable firearm might have put an armed police official in the god awful dilemma of deciding whether he had to shoot the kid in order to prevent him from shooting his classmates. I’m not sure what the purpose of an inoperable weapon is anyway. It’s not a toy and it’s not a weapon.