Should plastic guns be considered a threat?

Black Orchid · Post by **Black Orchid** » Fri Jun 08, 2018 6:12 pm

A teenage girl wearing a hijab turned up yesterday at Sydney’s Prince of Wales Hospital. Nothing unusual about that.

Except she was wandering around with a realistic-looking toy rifle:

Witness Eunice Da Rocha said security staff were slow to react to the incident.

“I approached them to check the gun,” she said.

“They showed me a plastic machine gun and I said [to the girl] ‘you can’t play with toy guns around here and you can't take that into the hospital because people are scared.”

She said despite her warnings, the young girl walked into the hospital cafe, leaving a woman on the information desk “freaking out”.

No charges followed:

Police confirmed the ‘gun’ was a toy and it was not illegal to have a guy identified as a ‘toy”.

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs ... da9c36d98c

Apparently the police gave her and her family a good talking to. What a joke!! Shouldn't intent be taken into account? She should be charged!!

BigP · Post by **BigP** » Fri Jun 08, 2018 6:40 pm

""Shouldn't intent be taken into account? She should be charged!!""

Her age and other personal factors would need to be taken into account before that decision was made,

BigP · Post by **BigP** » Fri Jun 08, 2018 6:41 pm

If it was state/side she probably would have been shot

Black Orchid · Post by **Black Orchid** » Fri Jun 08, 2018 6:45 pm

Well that might stop her from doing something insanely stupid again. She was warned and it looked real and if I had a gun and she pointed it as me I might have shot her too.

freediver · Post by **freediver** » Fri Jun 08, 2018 6:47 pm

No, but if you point it at a cop you might end up dead.

BigP · Post by **BigP** » Fri Jun 08, 2018 6:51 pm

freediver wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 08, 2018 6:47 pm
No, but if you point it at a cop you might end up dead.

Rite said Fred, But police in Aus and NZ tend to be less inclined to shoot people

Black Orchid · Post by **Black Orchid** » Fri Jun 08, 2018 7:04 pm

Well maybe that will change if people in these unstable times choose to walk around pointing life like plastic guns at people especially when they are wearing a hijab (or whatever it is).

For God's sake in Sydney we have to put up ugly concrete barriers whenever there is an occasion because of terrorist threats.

What was she thinking if not to instil fear at a hospital of all places?

freediver · Post by **freediver** » Fri Jun 08, 2018 7:05 pm

BigP wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 08, 2018 6:51 pm

freediver wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 08, 2018 6:47 pm
No, but if you point it at a cop you might end up dead.
Rite said Fred, But police in Aus and NZ tend to be less inclined to shoot people

Aye. You've got good odds of surviving.

Gordon · Post by **Gordon** » Fri Jun 08, 2018 10:21 pm

The realism of that replica would make it illegal in NSW, surely.

boxy · Post by **boxy** » Sat Jun 09, 2018 2:59 pm

Black Orchid wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 08, 2018 6:12 pm
Apparently the police gave her and her family a good talking to. What a joke!! Shouldn't intent be taken into account? She should be charged!!

Nothing you have posted here suggests it was a deliberate act of provocation. What should she be charged with?

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