And a white granny at that! What gives?
Apparently 52 year old Sylvia Klibingaitis had waved a knife at them. Well! That'll teach her, won't it? There's something tragically amiss here. They're either recruiting the wrong kind of people or their training is seriously flawed. Maybe a bit of both. It's hard to imagine that blazing away in a suburban neighborhood on a weekday morning is the preferred method of dealing with a pissed off woman.
They need to take a page or two out of my book. Whenever a pissed off woman pulls a knife on me, first thing I do is run to the gun cabinet, but only to grab the key out of the lock. No sense letting a bad situation escalate. I can usually outrun a woman with a knife. I can't outrun a 9 mil hollow-point. Then I clear the hell out of there.
The thing about pissed off women is that they'll usually calm down after they let off a bit of steam. How long that takes can depend on a number of factors: weather, time of the month, gravity of perceived infraction, amount of wine consumed, and so on. How long you need to clear out can range from a half hour to, in extreme cases, permanently. Let's face it, you're not leaving any stuff behind that's worth dying for.
And that's my point. Nobody needs to die in these situations. Maybe the Police Services Board can introduce a nice simple slogan that the trainees can commit to memory.
"Turn on brain switch before cocking Glock."
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