This was just reported a day ago. It is still under investigation by the GBI.
A Georgia teen who dreamed of being a Marine was killed by police at his front door while wielding only a Wii remote, the family lawyer claims.
Christopher Roupe, 17, of Euharlee was felled by a single police bullet when an unidentified officer arrived at the family mobile home to execute a probation violation warrant against his father,
We live in a "gun soaked" society. The cops are nervous, the general public is nervous because everyone has a gun. Deadly force has become the norm since everyone owns a gun, a taser is considered inhuman in some parts of the country and in other parts of the country even rubber bullets are not even right. So yeah police has a right to be nervous everywhere they go even when they are serving a warrant. So if the teenager in this case was holding a Wii remote or a BB gun the question is was the officer that fired the shot in the wrong.
Hopefully it will all come to the surface during the investigation.
Does any of my readers remember when that teenager was accidentally killed for pointing a Lazer Tag gun at an officer. Back in those days those guns looked real and was black. I used to have a Lazer Tag set so I remember those guns. That incident resulted in all toy guns not looking like the read thing and being colored differently or have a bright colored unremovable cap from the end of them. I think even cap guns have quit being made any of you remember them. I used to have one of those too and it made alot of noise and let off alot of smoke like it was real.
I am not against guns. I just believe they should be used for self defense. But we have become a "gun soaked" society. If anyone mentions regulation of some form everyone freaks out.
"Guns do not kill people, only people using them kill people."
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