Woman who was shot and killed by Texas officers aimed a BB gun at them and refused instructions to drop the weapon. (Austin, news)

[Packard fan]

Play stupid games: win stupid prizes. Pulling even a BB gun on a cop's a real good way to get dropped. Period.

[pknopp]

Originally Posted by DerpyDerp

There are many unanswered questions, but a BB gun is still capable of maiming and/or causing death.

Aiming a BB gun with the knowledge of others it's a BB gun is what a person with a mental problem would do to get an officer to shoot them.

It's not OK just because their illness brings this desire on.

[MPowering1]

When someone is holding any type of weapon and yelling 'Kill me, kill me, shoot me', their objective is pretty clear.

[pknopp]

Originally Posted by MPowering1

When someone is holding any type of weapon and yelling 'Kill me, kill me, shoot me', their objective is pretty clear.

It is.....they need help.

[Mathguy]

Originally Posted by pknopp

It is.....they need help.

100% agree but it's a little late at that stage if you are asking an officer to make a mental health eval AND ID a wheapon at a distance on someone that may or may not have a real gun at 3AM....after family calling and saying they have a weapon.

It's not like they just found her yelling at a street pole in the walmart parking lot.

[War Beagle]

Originally Posted by Haakon

No one is EVER trained to "shoot to wound" - ever, that's hollywood fantasy material, which explains why anti gun people constantly ask about it.

This is one of the dumbest things that comes out of liberals' mouths, and that is saying something.

[desertdetroiter]

Originally Posted by Mathguy

Whoa whoa whoa.....

Hubby warns police she has a weapon....but it's a bb-gun? Holy crap.

If my wife was having a breakdown and had a bb-gun I'd be wrestling it away from her before she got shot and not calling the police saying she's got a weapon.

This one may have been ASSISTED suicide.

Yeah...this whole story is fishy.

[pknopp]

Originally Posted by Mathguy

100% agree but it's a little late at that stage if you are asking an officer to make a mental health eval AND ID a wheapon at a distance on someone that may or may not have a real gun at 3AM....after family calling and saying they have a weapon.

It's not like they just found her yelling at a street pole in the walmart parking lot.

As I said......it all depends on what was known and by who concerning her gun.

[budlight]

Originally Posted by pknopp

Aiming a BB gun with the knowledge of others it's a BB gun is what a person with a mental problem would do to get an officer to shoot them.

It's not OK just because their illness brings this desire on.

Struggling to find a way to blame the police on this one. This is all the fault of the idiot aiming a weapon at the police.

[Ralph_Kirk]

Originally Posted by pknopp

As I said......it all depends on what was known and by who concerning her gun.

There is, of course, much we don't know.

But it still sounds fishy that the husband was apparently not at the scene and isn't the one with anything to say about it now.