Deputy shoots teen wielding pellet gun.

[Wild Bill Kelso]

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A sheriff's deputy shot a 15-year-old he believed was armed with a 9 mm handgun at a Florida middle school Friday only to learn later that the weapon was a modified pellet gun, the Seminole County sheriff said.

[WillBrayJr]

Do a search on Google for "Airsoft Blog Spot". A couple of years back a guy robbed a Bank in Avilla, IN with what I remembered correctly to be a cheap spring-powered Beretta M9.

[NCIC105]

Kid paid for his stupidity.

When someone points a weapon at you, you do not have time to study it to see if it is real!

[nogods]

From the linked story the shooting sounds entirely justified.

[Purple]

A gun is a gun. LE can't take the time t figure out if the guns a pellet/BB gun or a 5.7X28, .22, etc. Unfortunately the 15yo paid the price for his stupidity and the LE was certainly justified.

[JohnD13]

Sorry to say, the kid got what was coming to him. The LEO saw a gun, and responded per his training. Some of those pellet guns are very realistic in appearence. And the kid had it at a school, another bad choice on his part.

[eagleeyes]

wow how sad a life lost that could have been prevented

[Keykutter]

wow how sad a life lost that could have been prevented

Only by the idiot kid himsellf.

A little chlorine in the gene pool may make other kids a bit smarter. Maybe not, so a little more chlorine may be needed.

KK

[AppliedPerspective]

Sounds like suicide-by-cop to me, which is sadly way too common.

[Lowjiber]

Pull a gun on a cop...you deserve the consequences.