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Well, I was taught at 10-15 feet, someone can get a knife in you real fast.
Yes … This is real life … It's not a TV movie in which Marshal Matt Dillon cooly draws his pistol and shoots the knife out of the guy's hand …
These situations are dicey and chaotic and often tragic …
Expecting -- demanding -- that the police must keep us all safe without ever hurting anybody is unrealistic ..
That was your response to a post that said: "It should not matter if the guy has something (a knife even) in his hand)."
As a school principal I had to confront middle school aged children with knives a couple of times, and once even a student who had a loaded gun. Funny, I retrieved the knives and the guns with no real problem. Or maybe I should have just shot those 12 year olds to death?
You are comparing taking a pocket knife away from a child to disarming an adult on the street?
because we don't believe that in the internal world of police departments that there are "proper investigations". We believe that more often than not, there are white washes.
Its one thing to acknowledge that coverups happen, and to try to root them out, but to say they happen "more often than not"? Well, I've learned that when someone tells you "this is what I believe" followed by a statement with no factual basis, its very similar to his saying "this is what I feel." There is no rational argument with someone who hangs his hat on imaginary hatracks.
Last edited by CapnTrips; 09-03-2015 at 08:39 AM..
You offer no solution; just keep doing what we've always done. A waste of a post.
I have yet to hear your solution. By any chance does it involve "taking to the streets?" Fine, as long as its non-violent. After the public has been sufficiently stoked, now what?
Well, I was taught at 10-15 feet, someone can get a knife in you real fast.
For what its worth, make that twenty feet. The knife can be in your chest faster than someone can draw a pistol from that distance. This is common knowledge in law enforcement. Not to mention that if your first shot fails to stop, he will be on you stabbing repeatedly.
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