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   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   Dave Wainwright wrote on 8/7/24 7:41 am:   
   > On 7/7/2024 4:50 AM, Daniel70 wrote:   
   >> Tom Gardner wrote on 5/7/24 5:48 pm:   
      
      
      
   >>> If someone is waving a plastic knife around, a real knife even, bust   
   >>> something over their damned head then knock the knife away.  It's not   
   >>> that hard.  Aren't cops supposed to have batons anymore?  You didn't   
   >>> dare mess with a cop carrying a baton when I was a kid.  They'd fuck you   
   >>> up with that stick.   
   >>>   
   >> If ( *IF* ) the cops HAVE to shoot, can't they shoot the 'perp' in the   
   >> legs. the arms, the stomach, wherever, somewhere NOT likely to be   
   >> fatal, but would give the 'perp' something to think about whilst the   
   >> Cops 'take him/her down'!!   
   >   
   > Knife or club certainly.  If the perp has a gun, why take the chance?   
      
   Correct!!   
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   Daniel   
      
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