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ScooterSissy wrote:

jmra wrote:

ScooterSissy wrote:Sorry, looks pretty cool to me. And looks a LOT more like people taking pictures than using a gun.

A lot of things are cool until someone dies.

I've seen people take pictures for years, and have yet to hear of someone dying from it.

I think the idea that this may be mistaken for a gun is heightened by us knowing what they're doing, and seeing their screen. Observers (including police) won't see that. They'll see kids (and maybe some adults) taking pictures of each other.

Maybe they should paint the lens device bright orange...

The problem I see with this isn't so much what they are doing, but it is the behavior, at least in this example. They way they move in a stalking manner. I trained protection dogs for many years and one of the first things they are trained to pick up on is body language. I believe LEOs are trained and become familiar with similar clues about behavior. It makes them suspicious. And then there's also the training that a recent blogger and a couple others have recently gone through in shoot-no shoot scenarios where that decision is sometimes made in fractions of a second. There was even a link around here somewhere to a simple online version of this.

ScooterSissy wrote:Sorry, looks pretty cool to me. And looks a LOT more like people taking pictures than using a gun.

It does look cool, but the way they are sneaking around and coming out from behind cover will probably create a very bad situation at some point in time.

Only a matter time. It might even be an LEO that is surprised by one of these gamers, who doesn't know there's an LEO nearby.