According to the cackling “brain trust” on “The View”:
A) Shoot the gun in the air
- A very foolish move that would accomplish nothing.
B) Shoot the perp in the leg or butt
- So now all cops are marksmen? Aiming for other than center mass is very dangerous.
C) Use a taser
- Not all cops carry tasers. They require separate training, and we have recently seen how things can go wrong. Also, you need to be close to the perp and you only get one shot.
Minor point - two shot Tasers are a thing these days, but sometimes Tasers just do not work *at all* on people. There is a certain percentage of the population whose nervous and neural systems simply are not affected at all by a Taser. You can get a good shot with a working module, the needles stick properly in the skin... and nothing happens when current is applied.
Juan Williams was just saying the same thing on The Five. “Fire a shot in the air to distract the killer.”
Yeah butt that girl in Ohio has a big butt that was the largest target area on her body.
The proper response is to let the knifer to the knifing. Then swear them in as a cop. The jury will take it from there.