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Originally Posted by WhiteTiger
The thing that gets me with this is the whole "he was unarmed" or "he only had a little knife" comments. I wonder if people consider that there are folks out there who are trained in unarmed or melee weapon combat.
Myself, for instance...I have the training that if I can get to within arms reach of you, I can kill or incapacitate you with one hit. You wouldn't know it from looking at me. In fact, one might almost assume the opposite.
If you, as a police officer, risked letting someone like me into arms reach, even if it doesn't look like I'm holding a weapon, it would likely go very, very poorly for you. Would you take that risk? Every time you deal with someone?
As to the size of the knife...keep in mind how close to the edge of one's throat one's windpipe is.
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Okay, fair enough, but still I don't think cops go into every scenario thinking they are dealing with either you or Jason Bourne (assuming you aren't Jason Bourne, which, by the sounds of it, might be a bad assumption on my part). The streets would be littered with bodies if that were the case.