• Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Billy club, taser, or just a good old Sparta kick to the chest.

    Wouldn’t a gardening hoe have range/length/blockage on those other weapons, making them ineffective for defense?

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      8 months ago

      Club yeah, taser should be able to reach out and touch him, pepper spray, or just run back and try to talk the kid down since you’re the grown adult, fuckin something from these shitbirds who get a tax break on an MRAP and then cosplay as soldiers with none of the rules. Lethal force should be the last resort, not a reflexive first move. Bad training that is essentially just thin blue line propaganda.

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        Club yeah, taser should be able to reach out and touch him, pepper spray, or just run back and try to talk the kid down since you’re the grown adult,

        I was thinking the taser wires could get caught up in the hoe forks, as they would be in front of the person.

        Pepper spray may work, though I’ve always read that there’s some people who get used to it, so it doesn’t stop them from doing their violence.

        I’m thinking at the point where someone is running at you (per the OP picture) with a deadly instrument it’s probably too late to talk them down.

        Lethal force should be the last resort, not a reflexive first move. Bad training that is essentially just thin blue line propaganda.

        Can definitely agree on this one. Considering we keep seeing this crap over and over again, I got to wonder what kind of training the police departments are giving their people, that this keeps coming up.

        Not discarding proper training, but what we really need is something that only exists in fiction, Star Trek phasers, set on stun.

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        8 months ago

        Did you watch the video? The cop literally was running away from the guy that was chasing after him.

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      8 months ago

      The way you defend against a reach weapon is by closing in, not giving space. Unless you have murderous intent.

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        8 months ago

        Unless you have murderous intent.

        I think it’s safe to think that would always be the case, if someone comes at you with a weapon.

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          8 months ago

          *child *farm implement

          And by you I meant the cop. But I agree we can assume they’ll always have murderous intent. That’s the only thing they’re trained to do. Mental illness? Murder. Acorn fell? Murder. Child having an episode? Murder. Suspect complains they can’t breathe? Murder.