tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post1721324565030959456..comments2024-03-28T15:39:28.239-04:00Comments on Vital Remnants: Why is UK suspending four football players for playing with a toy gun?Martin Cothranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-17367233627373775662014-10-02T16:45:11.481-04:002014-10-02T16:45:11.481-04:00According to UK's own code, these young men ar...According to UK's own code, these young men are not guilty, your honor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-4182487781781432332014-10-01T18:08:55.683-04:002014-10-01T18:08:55.683-04:00Maybe one answer is to rid ourselves of as many p...Maybe one answer is to rid ourselves of as many panicky cops as possible. Were these players shooting at themselves or others just walking by on campus? I ask this because if they were just messing with each other I can only imagine the call to police...shots fired, silencers used and no one is falling down even though shots are being fired from point blank range. Please send cops, but no Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-78922723027852765092014-10-01T13:29:53.759-04:002014-10-01T13:29:53.759-04:00Anonymous,
What part of somebody could've bee...Anonymous,<br /><br />What part of somebody could've been killed by a panicky cop do you don't understand?KyCobbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-47552778757528350522014-10-01T12:47:27.097-04:002014-10-01T12:47:27.097-04:00These guys are now going to be prosecuted by the F...These guys are now going to be prosecuted by the Fayette County DA. KyCobb is probably fine with that, too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-74224510724327207832014-10-01T09:36:37.571-04:002014-10-01T09:36:37.571-04:00Martin,
"What if they had had a squirt gun i...Martin,<br /><br />"What if they had had a squirt gun instead of an air-soft gun and the police thought it was a gun? Should they treat them as if they had had a real gun even though it was just a squirt gun?"<br /><br />They shouldn't. My point is that there was a very real risk that someone could've been shot dead by the cops. Squirt guns typically aren't going to make a KyCobbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-76457239338690853972014-09-30T19:49:58.283-04:002014-09-30T19:49:58.283-04:00Our local paper had a brief article this week abou...Our local paper had a brief article this week about a boy from a local middle school who is facing an expulsion hearing because he accidentally brought an airsoft "gun" to school, and turned it over to a security guard when he realized that it was in his backpack. Magnanimously, the school said that he will probably be cited for causing a "disturbance" instead of for carrying Anna Mussmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11631139113615066986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-13789925709963574962014-09-30T19:10:05.793-04:002014-09-30T19:10:05.793-04:00If any of those guys had been smoking they'd g...If any of those guys had been smoking they'd get the death penalty.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-59062661273436308802014-09-30T19:03:13.278-04:002014-09-30T19:03:13.278-04:00The cops clearly didn't know it wasn't a r...<i>The cops clearly didn't know it wasn't a real gun, and took the situation very seriously; someone could've been killed by a nervous cop.</i><br /><br />Where did I argue that they shouldn't? My problem was what they did after they discovered it was not a real gun.<br /><br />They are now prosecuting them on criminal charges. <br /><br />What if they had had a squirt gun insteadMartin Cothranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-35259390090070078912014-09-30T19:00:26.372-04:002014-09-30T19:00:26.372-04:00So if I'm shot by a BB gun, there will be the ...So if I'm shot by a BB gun, there will be the same result as if I was shot by an air-soft gun?<br /><br />Have you ever been shot by an air-soft gun?Martin Cothranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-68014092873417424902014-09-30T15:12:22.624-04:002014-09-30T15:12:22.624-04:00Martin,
Yes I am. In the Walmart incident, the g...Martin,<br /><br />Yes I am. In the Walmart incident, the guy was just carrying the BB gun around. He didn't fire it, and the cops shot him down. According to the CJ:<br />"An airsoft pistol – which fires plastic pellets – was recovered after UK police received two calls at about 9:30 p.m. Sunday about possible shots fired outside the Kirwan-Blanding residence hall complex on the KyCobbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-90118669645882207132014-09-30T13:57:22.211-04:002014-09-30T13:57:22.211-04:00KyCobb,
Are you comparing a BB gun to a air-soft ...KyCobb,<br /><br />Are you comparing a BB gun to a air-soft gun?Martin Cothranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-60000986218927892262014-09-30T10:26:51.654-04:002014-09-30T10:26:51.654-04:00Martin,
Are you aware that a man was recently gun...Martin,<br /><br />Are you aware that a man was recently gunned down by police in a Walmart because he was holding a BB gun he had picked up there to purchase? When you are firing a gun on campus that could rapidly escalate into a very dangerous situation because these toys are frequently indistinguishable from the real thing. KyCobbnoreply@blogger.com