Posted on 09/17/2017 6:49:36 PM PDT by Ennis85
I’ve never faced a them with a knife, but Massad Ayoob and others have written that if a they brandishing a knife and advancing on you, as here, gets within 12 feet (the figure I recall) of you, then they’re too close and you should start shooting.
Video of the dude ...er, I mean non-binary person being shot as requested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeSzAJv6naY The video includes not only the fatal shot but his screaming in pain.
If he is a young spry athlete, he probably lunges and kills you if you let him too close.
That was not the situation here.
...And quite insane. I guess he failed anger management class as well.
I’d shoot the knife right out of his hand. Might even get the hand.
Yep. It’s called The Tueller Drill and it’s taught at every law enforcement academy on Earth.
This is a righteous shoot. The kid was armed and advancing on the police.
The police don’t have enough room in their police car for all the whizbang cool stuff available from Amazon.
As far as I know, they all carry pepper spray. A lot also carry a taser.
Both could have been used easily to stop him but yes this will go down as justified even if it really wasn’t.
If you are going to try to shoot someone in the foot, you shouldn’t carry a gun.
The BBC used to have standards. It wasn’t the Atlanta Police.
Its preferred pronoun, “they”. WTH is the matter with these people? You need a manual to have a conversation with one of them.
I’m not going to read the whole piece, I just know what I have been taught in several firearms classes. An assailant can cover 5 or 6 yards pretty quickly.
The man was seriously mentally ill. The family and friends should be asked just what efforts they made to help him. Other than enabling his delusions, I mean. I know first hand it is very difficult to deal with a mentally ill relative or friend. It’s also very easy to place blame on others for not doing any better.
Lady, it’s really fuc*ing simple. When a cop gives you a commmamd, you FOLLOW IT. If you don’t, you ffa e the use of lethal force. That’s the beginning and end of the discussion. There’s no ifs, ands, or buts. Your kid did something stupid and he got dead as a result.
I have no bad feelings whatsoever.
I suspect that I know more about guns and shooting than you.
There are not many situations where it would be proper to shoot someone in the foot. This very well may have been one of those.
If you don’t think I could do it, stop by and visit me. I will get out a pellet pistol, and you can wear a boot. Walk at me slowly as this guy is doing and I will put one right on top of your foot.
I have shot lots of rattlesnakes through the head with a .22 pistol or larger caliber. It is not that hard to do but is way more difficult than shooting a foot moving slowly.
He’s got “That Look “.
Wonder if the transgender white person was shot by a black cop? Which group gets the support of the mob?
“A man’s got to know his limitations.”
When a cop sees a transvestite coming at him with a butcher knife and a hard-on, you got to figure he isn’t out collecting for the Red Cross.
Aren’t people taught any more that not following the directions of the police is an invitation for trouble? Whenever my mom was pulled over for speeding when we were kids, she’d curse them out privately, but after rolling down the window was all softness and compliance.
Less than 20 ft and knife> gun
Bull sht on he should have not shot
Sounds like what Dirty Harry was saying to his chief about killing a rapist, lmao
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