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A perfect world with phasers on stun would be nice, but until that happens, I really am just fine with lunatics waving butcher knives and making threats being dealt with quickly to minimize the danger to innocent people.

Be sure to leave those instructions concerning your relatives in nursing homes, etc.

Your star trek ref is silly. There are a multitude of ways to neutralize a person with a knife when time permits, 12 gauge bean bags and standoff tasers are just two.

Tasers have been pulled from use by the police in my fair city after someone croaked following their application.

That leaves bean bags.

I didn't think the Star Trek aspect was at all silly. People assume there has to be a way to keep things clean and pretty, but the reality is someone brandishing a butcher knife in the middle of Manhattan is a problem, and the resolution is probably not going to be clean and pretty. If the guy had gotten to a citizen--let's milk it for maximum emotion--and cut the throat of a 4 year old, there would be an uproar about failure to stop him in time.