One point nobody has raised: The police get a call about a person with a gun. When they show up, they have no idea if the person they find is the one reported - or a different person with a gun.
If the cop had shown up expecting to find a kid with a toy and instead stumbles upon some gangbanger with a genuine .45, he could be a dead cop today.
It's also strange that some would want the Dispatcher fired for not relaying the erroneous info that it was a fake gun. It wasn't fake and again, even if it was it is as you say and also the person saying it was probably fake may have not known the difference between a fake and a real gun. Many AR's today, for instance, are bright orange and other colors and look nearly identical to kid's toys.
