The left here will eventually have our police departments disarmed along with the legal citizens.
“Several cops form a ring around him”
Probably a good moment to NOT start shooting.
“Instead, the offender survived, and no cop had to deal with the trauma of killing him.”
...and everybody lived happily ever after!~sarc.
Who truly wants the offender to “survive”? Now he’s around to “offend” again. Any cops middle name should be “trauma”. It’s their job.
What’s next? Isis survived. And nobody in the military had to deal with trauma?!
Kevlar Vests do not stop knives.
The scene from “Raiders of the Lost Ark” comes to mind.
Harrison Ford was surrounded. The guy steps out wielding a huge knife; twirling it around like a pro.
Harrison sighs, grimaces and promptly pulls out his gun, shoots him dead and moves on.
Yup. Now that is how it should be handled.
Maybe cops should have swords or sabers. This was the standard for militaries and nobles well into the 19th century.
But everyone knows that a lunge with a knife at a short distance will beat drawing a gun out of a holster.
That seems like a nice ending. If the cashier had his throat slashed, probably not a nice ending. If at some point in the walk, a cop had tripped trying to “circle him”, and he had taken that opportunity to lunge and stab the cop, probably not a good outcome. If someone had walked out a door and accidentally bumped into a cop and gotten hurt, or the perp had attacked another civilian, not a good outcome.
Yes, if you avoid deadly force against someone who is threatening deadly force, sometimes they will eventually give up. But you need to compare all outcomes, to determine if this approach always gives you a better result.
As a former cop I can say we trained for knife scenarios. I thug with a knife who is within 15 feet of you can become lethal is a few seconds - especially if that thug is trained with edge weapons and knows how and where to deliver a fatal slash that will cause the LEO to bleed out in two minutes.
Knife in the hands of a thug should always mean drawn weapon in the hands of a cop. NOTHING LESS.
bull crap.. shoot the SOB
Giant electromagnets? (sarcasm)
Criminal Lives Don’t Matter...
From several different knife fighting teachers;
In most cases, its almost a certainty that both you and your adversary will get cut during the knife fight.
The five principles are as follows: Expect to get cut.
expect to leave the fight with a few slashes in your arms / hands.
You dont put on boxing gloves and not expect to get hit, you play with sharp objects you should expect to get cut.
Jerks who make these rules or promote the use of non lethal force when confronted with a very lethal tool like a knife have never seen what happens when someone stabs or pierces someone with a knife or sword. Vests protect against most small arms, they do not protect against knives so in very close combat the knife is more dangerous than a firearm.
Generally these are the same ninnies who make statements like why did not he shoot the arm out of the assailants hand or why did he not disable him by a shot to the arm or some such.
Tasers are great for subduing an unarmed criminal. I would not wish to put anyone enforcing a law in the position of relying on it to sub do someone with a knife.
Camden is cited at the example here. If it was nuked, we would do the world a favor.
Yay! The bad guy lived. THE COPS ARE HEROES!
Boo! The bad guy died. THE COPS ARE VILLIANS!
What are these people, freakin 2 years old?
So...we can expect Chapman to rush in and save the day now? Or just be another “whorespondent” coward mouthpiece hiding under his desk? Surely, he’ll be the point of the spear now since he knows all about it.
Maybe we should REQUIRE them to shoot. Give idiots a reason to not show a knife or other weapon rather than trying to make it safer to threaten police.
Knife wielding maniac lives to slash another day!