GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, OR DO THEY?

[SIXFOOTERsez]

I couldn't give a fuck how realistic the replica was that shouldn't be the fucking issue here.

The issue is why the police were so eager and trigger happy to gun down a BOY! That is surely more of a concern than how realistic the replica he was carrying was.

I used to play with toy guns with my friends all the time outside when I was a kid and the issue of whether or not a cop would show up and fill me full of lead wasn't an issue and it shouldn't be in 2013 either.

So, how many 13 or 14 yr old gang bangers lived on your block when you were a kid? The environment you grew in probably in no way resembles the one that the LAPD or Sonoma cops live in. Out there there are gang bangers and regular crazy motherfuckers carrying guns on the street.
The threat is real all the time, the cops had a couple seconds to make a decision.