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Originally Posted by Anthony
As someone who has been stabbed, you have no clue what you are saying Kristin. A knife close range is more deadly than a gun, as you have multiple angles to kill with, while a gun has one, barrel pointed at you.
My first LE course back in the day had my instructor with a knife 20 feet away, and me with a holstered but cleared firearm. I was instructed to pull and fire before I got stabbed. Three tries, and I died three times.
In a gun fight, you cannot pick and choose what to shoot at, the adrenal dump causes loss of fine motor skills, that's one of the reasons why any firearm training consists of hitting center mass. Pick the largest target, and aim to stop the nervous system. More advanced training like the Mozambique would give the press a field day, but are way more practical in a life and death situation.
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A surprise type attack, yes...depending on the holster type, this could be hard to stop even for a trained person.
However it doesn't sound like they strolled up on this guy. It sounded like they knew he had a weapon the entire time and after they already hit him with tasers. Normally in this type of situation the officers would already have the weapons out, and probably at the ready before engaging him again. I can only assume they gave him verbal warnings, but with multiple officers shooting him, it's more than plausible.
It's very possible to stop an aggressive target with your weapon already at the ready or even close to it. He may not live, but you really only need one shot and it can be put in a spot that might not kill them, with very little effort.