OMG Guns Everywhere

[KUSA]

The old man didn't have time to make a judgment call, but I still consider this a bad outcome. Surely it would have been better to leave these kids' punishment to a jury rather than a deadly weapon in the hands of a frantic old man, hence less force would have been better. I already linked to the studies on how pressuring people to shoot quickly induces a reliance on racial stereotypes.

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Here's some research into how our racial biases can lead to false positives in weapon identification and assailant identification, especially when we're pressured to react quickly.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12500813

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11519925

So blame the victim and throw race in it also for good measure.