I&#x27;ve seen police shoot and kill a man &quot;armed with a toy&quot; and it&#x27;s very, very hard for me to fault them for it.  It sounds bad when you say it, but armed with a toy and armed should be treated as the same thing.  When a man being chased by police stops his car, gets out, takes cover behind the door and starts pointing something that looks remarkably like a gun at police, he <i>should</i> be shot.