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... In my case I was robbed at my job at gun point(I was off the clock) and the responding officer said if I would have used my handgun in defense I would have went to jail and been charged.Then he went to say if I defended my self with my knife I would have went home same day charge free. There was two suspects one with a gun one with a knife. ...
Exactly! That's why I figured why even try to defend my self if that was the outcome! There was also two suspects one with a knife and one with a gun I'm lucky I got away! This was in multlomah county!That makes no sense to me.
1) They guy pointed a gun at you -- how could any sort of self-defense be considered illegal? There's the obvious issue of not drawing on a gun in your face, but setting that aside.
2) If you defended yourself with a knife against a guy with a gun, you wouldn't be going home, charges or not. You'd be dead.
"Something to consider :
For some folks the idea of shooting someone , even when defending themselves , is abhorrent."
I find the idea of shooting somebody abhorrent, even in self defense.
That does not mean I won't do it, just that I don't relish the idea of doing harm.
IMHO there are 2 kids of people who should not carry a gun:
* Those who couldn't bring themselves to shoot somebody under any conditions,
-and-
* Those who want to shoot somebody and look forward to the "opportunity."
The pepper spray thing is annoying -- I wish there was a consistent answer on this topic. It does seem the consensus is that it is risky in a self-defense situation -- it would be nice if instead of the law making the carrying of pepper spray a trap, it tried to encourage the use of spray by making its availability inadmissible or something like that. The unintended consequence of turning pepper spray into a legal quagmire, is that people avoid it and defensive encounters will be more deadly rather than less. The law is an bubblegum as they say.
That was the most amazing thing I have ever seen. How did this moron ever become a Cop?About the adrenaline dump. I just saw this on ASP. My adrenaline was up just watching
It can also dramatically changes the disparity of force equation in the eye of a prosecutor due to the volume and style of training required to wield it as a successful self defense tool. The thought being that If you can fight with a knife, you can fight empty-handed and could have ended the threat without lethal force or at least controlled the degree of escalation. I agree, although I trained for years in Northern Shaolin Kung-Fu to wield bladed weapons in combat, it is not my first choice for self defense. I almost always have one in my EDC gear but it is not considered a front line self defense tool. I always have a quick release pepper spray canister on my support side to accompany my CZ 9mm on the other. When I'm going places I can't carry, the CZ is replaced with a TASER Pulse but the load-out configuration is the same.It seems like use of a knife for SD is harder to defend than a gun. Lacking any "stopping power" any defensive effect from a knife comes either from exanguination or quitting from fear.