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Problem with the Tazer, it doesn’t always work and they tell you during training that it works better on thin or muscular people than on fat people. Depending on which cartridge you have in the Tazer, it may or may not penetrate clothing or get caught up in their clothing, rendering it useless. Regardless of those facts, if you use a Tazer and it doesn’t work, which has happened to me several times, you may pay with your life. We were trained that if someone was coming at you with a knife you don’t use the Tazer, you use your firearm. Always one up over the assailant.

I went to an NRA firearms school to become a pistol/shotgun instructor. They always taught us the ‘21 foot’ rule, the reported minimum safe distance to keep from somebody armed with a knife.

They had someone stand 21 feet away from you and on the command, the individual, representing someone with a knife, charged the officer who was supposed to draw their handgun and fire two shots. Less than half the class could get to their gun and fire 2 shots before the man with the knife was on top of them. Very few were able to get their gun out, fire and manuever out of the way.

Now factor in a man with a knife who may have mental problems, be loaded up on drugs or both, along with the stress, coming at you at a sprint. Even if you hit them with rounds from your gun they may keep coming.

Sorry, I’m not going to chance it. I’m going to use my firearm and I am going to do my best to place my shots at center mass, hoping to hit something vital and knock them down. I don’t necessarily want them to die but I sure as hell don’t want to take the chance of dying either.

Anybody crazy enough to attack a cop, with or without a knife, is likely crazy enough to kill you.