Sheriff puts his clothes on just like I do. I'll treat him or anyone else the same.
never had a problem playing cowboy and Indians with cap guns or daisy pop guns that are a loud as shotguns.
The level of paranoia and militarized training since 9/11 has some Cops ready to pop off rounds too quickly. Kids don't play with guns. They play with toy guns, including parks etc.
If they are in neighborhoods where crime is rampant he kids still don't play with guns.
Teen age drug runners do, maybe.
In a war zone, kids with Aks are going to shoot your butt.
We are not in a war zone except some places apparently.
We don't go there and our kids don't play there. If you do or you don't trust the Cops or your Govt there, get out of there.
I remember in town where we lived, the whole neighborhood playing cops and robbers, and an occasional police car coming by. they didn't sot us kids nor we them.
On the mountain, where I seemed to spend most of my childhood at Grand Ma's I walked to the store a mile away with a .22 tucked under my arm to buy more .22s. Sheriff nor anybody said anything to me. I was 6 maybe.
We have got to get our Country reconditioned and stop all the stuff going on.