—I just don’t think police should be the first to fire in a school or other public situation. —
You and I strongly disagree on that one.
—In this case, if the police had held fire until the boy fired first, they would have had a good laugh* as they carted the perp off to juvy. By firing first, the possibility of a peaceful resolution was completely rejected by police.—
OTOH, if it had been a real gun and the police had not taken him down, there would have been no “good laugh”. None at all. And since the police do not have crystal balls, they had no idea which it was, but it was probably the latter.
Ever heard of ricochet, or bullets passing through bodies or walls, killing innocent children? I wonder who might have been behind or near the perp?
Yeah, it is so much safer when cops start shooting FIRST in a school. /dripping sarc
I suspect that if a private citizen had done what the cops did here, that citizen would be arrested for reckless endangerment, if not murder, & rightly so.