That is a good point. If I see a guy with a knife that is threatening me and I'm carrying a gun, I am not going to close the distance between him and me.
I saw enough to know what I saw.
Reports say he fired from approximately 10 feet.
>>He chased the guy down.
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>That is a good point. If I see a guy with a knife that is threatening me and I’m carrying a gun, I am not going to close the distance between him and me.
Let me be blunt.
To close the distance to the point where the knife’s effectiveness is reduced IS to be grappling with the man, and then you are nominally at the disadvantage because the knife can STILL cut at you while the two of you are fighting over it and your gun is well within its own ineffective range; in other words it is foolish.
If he IS threatening you with the knife, which in this particular case is not true, then you are ALREADY justified in using force to defend yourself up to and including shooting the man that is threatening you with bodily harm.