I think it's the unevenness of the weapons. One guy with a knife, several cops with loaded guns. IF the domestic abuser hadn't been shot, had reached the cops, what would have happened? He would have been overwhelmed and taken down, put in the back of a cruiser and taken to jail. Would he really have been able to stab one of them to death first when they all saw him coming and were prepared? I dunno. But I think that's where the complaint probably lies.
Ok. If I were to tell you that you are completely wrong, would you listen?
Up close, a person with a knife is not what you want to go up against. It doesn’t matter how many people you have, you are fucked if a person has a knife. You do not, under any circumstance, want to try and “overwhelm” the knife wielding person.
Hell, I remember a video of a cop/bad guy encounter from several years back. I believe it was 3 or 4 cops with rifles and one guy with a knife. They approached the guy. The guy managed to stab 3 of them, and I believe 1-2 died.
And I have news for you, these people aren’t rioting over the disparity of firepower.
I wonder if beef would like to try and take a knife off some one who was determined to cut him.
I wonder if he has ever tried.If a person threatens me with a knife I will draw my gun and give them a warning to drop ot back off or I will shoot them. At 8 feet or so I will shoot them im not going to let a person with a knife get any closer.
Perhaps beef can get together with a couple of his friends and try overwhelming. Person with a knife and see how it goes .
I am willing to bet a guy with a knife can stab or cut 2 or more people out of 6 before they can disarm them.
A class 3 vest which can stop stop a 44 mag bullet will be like butter up against a knife .
They guy killed himself plain and simple and the community rioting are morons radical democrats . aka scum and thugs
Bob,
You got who the quotes belong to backwards. I absolutely support the cops in this scenario, and wouldn’t be the least bit concerned if they sawed this dude in half.
And FYI... I’m 6’ and 220lbs. Very little body fat, and the last time I maxed on bench I put up 405x3 and 315X14. I’m quite capable of defending myself physically, whether that’s using my hands or weapons. I’be had weapons used against me. I tell you this not like “hey look at me”, but to give you some perspective about what I am going to say next.
I can tell you without a doubt, short of saving family, I will under no circumstances ever, ever try to “subdue” a person with a knife. I would get stabbed, without a doubt.
This isn’t the movies, where you pull some Steven segal shit and do some high speed hand slapping like your playing patty cake, deflecting every blow. In real life, blows land, you rarely, rarely, rarely intercept them. And guess what? If they have a knife in the hand when they swing, whatever just “intercepted it” is now stabbed/slashed.
I would, however, shoot that person without a second thought, and sleep very soundly that night.