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Originally Posted by Acey
How on God's green flat earth could this be possible. I'm assuming in both scenarios the suspect has only a knife - the person 10 feet away standing up can close the distance and kill you before you even unholster (in fact that distance is 21 feet) . You're done. The person in the car has to open the door and get out.
I must not be understanding this correctly. |
No Acey, I'm not saying a car driver with a knife, just an angry guy in a car telling the cops to eff off and he aint getting out of the car, cops tell a guy with a knife to drop the knife, he doesn't and they shoot him, they tell a guy in a car to get out of the car and they don't shoot him, even thought the guy in the car is statistically the only one that poses a threat to actually kill the cops.
A policeman is at far greater risk from a guy in a car with no knife than a guy with a knife and no car and yet we don't see the police shooting drivers if they don't get out of the car the way we do when some poor drunk mentally ill or just stupid schmoe waves a kitchen knife around