Originally Posted by
Shalidor
If you took away all of the firearm-related deaths per year in the United States, we are still higher than any other developed western country in the world for murder by other means. Despite knives being the weapon of choice for criminals in the UK, the US has more stabbing murders, by an insane margin, than the UK does. This is also if you completely remove the police from the equation too. People in the US are hyper-individualistic, and have very little concern for the tribe or group as a whole, beyond whatever group they belong to. There is very little public consciousness.
On the other hand, we have a lot less rapes and assaults per year than most developed western countries as well. In short, violence in the US is more likely to be of a fatal variety, whether there are guns involved or not. Hell, you're more likely to die from getting punched in the face in the US than you are from getting punched in the UK. It's not a problem with the police, or even gun ownership.
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Yeah, and then you do that really cool multi-step knife defense maneuver they taught you in weekend-warrior krav maga, and if you instead opt to shoot him, it just means you were a pussy who sucks at being an awesome, badass Steven Seagal impersonator. Everyone knows real men use their bare hands to stop someone with a lethal weapon...
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In this case, the shooting happened because the cop finally decided he should stop showing restraint and shoot the assailant who was armed with a lethal weapon. He should have shot much sooner.