Christmas excitement

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

I'm pretty baffled by this whole thread, as Spexx has come down very clearly on the side of gun control in numerous different threads. I would never in a million years have guessed that you would give your son a BB gun for Christmas, Spexx.

I hope that I've communicated that I have issues with handguns, not hunting rifles or shotguns. My son and his cousins and friends shoot each other with these - they sting but don't injure, and they MUST wear eye protection. I might have had some concern, had I been consulted, but my wife made the purchase without consultation.

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

It seems like you handled the police encounter the best you could, and that the boy knows better from now on. But I think suing the cops would be unwarranted, personally. They treated you like criminals at first, it's true, which wasn't very nice. But in the end no one was wrongly arrested, and after all only a few cops responded to the call.

I have no plans to sue. As I said

if there had been a home invasion, the cops behaved in a way that protected themselves and ensured that my family was not being threatened.

It was just a very scary situation.