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Originally Posted by Acey
Yes, which is why it's equally irrelevant to cite statistics for all incidents as the majority would involve firearms.
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Nope. You can take a look at this page:
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/long...m/deadly-force
It’s got year-by-year data up to 2017, so not perfect and not quite up to date, but it says in 2017 33 armed people were killed by deadly force, only 10 had firearms. In 2016 34 armed people were killed by deadly force, 4 had firearms.
While the unsorted data doesn’t make the picture as clear as it could be, assumptions like “the majority would involve firearms” aren’t founded on anything.
Even aside from that, and I’m not sure how many times this needs to be said for it to be clear, the issue is how they handle the same situations as other countries which kill less people. Let’s just say we’ll excuse all uses of deadly force when a gun is involved for arguments sake. They still kill more people, they still need to improve.
This situation is about a lady holding a knife. The issue remains how the police do not handle situations like this well enough, and the comparisons are to illustrate how much better they COULD handle the SAME situations.