The realistic-looking pistol being waved near a school bus in Lakewood was fake and painted over, TLS has learned.
TLS spoke with a family member who said the child had taken the plastic toy gun and painted over the orange tip to make it look real, not realizing the orange tip is to alert police it’s a fake.
However, the school bus driver who noticed it asked him if it had an orange tip – as required by law, and when she noticed it didn’t, warned him that it required one.
The family member says as the boy’s parents were made aware of the incident, they immediately confiscated the gun and trashed it.
Parents are urged to educate children about the dangers of having a realistic-looking gun. In numerous incidents, children holding a gun without an orange tip were shot and killed by police who had no way of knowing if the gun was real or not.
How low we’ve sunk
Can we get our precious neshamos away from the violence and poison
Very sad times
What a disgusting comment! How low we have sunk!
The boy did nothing wrong. He didn’t know the law, that’s all.
There’s nothing wrong with kids playing with guns, it doesn’t hurt anyone and it doesn’t lead to anything.
Better play with guns than many other things that are available, with a hechsher.
Current US history has shown us that there was exactly zero chance of this child being shot by LE.
You are not just wrong, but very wrong: Google “people shot by police holding toy gun”. 2nd article shows 86 people killed in 2 year period.
That’s basically what I said in the original post. Saw too many of them when people tried turning them to get their $100 buy back in NYC. We took the gun, kept the money and gave them a court appearance.
Sure!
Poor child!
It must be noted that just an orange tip is no longer enough in NY and NJ, the whole barrel has to be orange colored.
Also, this video was shot before the Texas attack.