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Old 06-04-2020, 04:35 PM   #1761
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Originally Posted by Acey View Post
The mantra of "it's just a knife, why shoot" has been disproven a gazillion times over so that's not even an argument to be made here.
Is there a crisis of police officers in the UK (who, as I mentioned above, do not carry guns) being killed by knife attacks? No? Then presumably there is another way for officers to respond to knife-wielding suspects other than shooting them dead. What we as citizens should be demanding from our police forcers is better tactics, better training, and a de-escalation first policy, not blindly accepting the mantra of "He/she had a knife, the officer HAD to shoot!"
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