Dead stabber removed from Ohio State University Campus

It's probably an automated message that they can send out quickly. Nothing wrong with that. But in the future, the best way to handle someone with a knife would be a regiment of pikes.

 

Or one of these, legally carried:

 

Come on... that's not nearly as fun.

 

You have a....point. Skewering someone is far funner!

 

THIS WAS HIM:

 

If everybody had one of these, they'd be safer yet
you brought a knife a gun and a car? well....

 

I'm sick of these senseless killings ....just sick of it. I guess it's our kids turn to find out what it was like to grow up in a violent place and it sucks...

 

Despite what the media would have you believe, crime and violence is declining. Sadly, humans are violent. They kill each other. I don't know if that will ever change.

 

That is the salient issue here, again!

 

I find that this is a common tactic by those who support gun control: ignore the fact that a gun in law-abiding hands is an equalizer against criminal behavior, and instead make some asinine unnecessary argument by using an extreme example that does not apply to the current debate.

Well done.

 

Damn! That is a stupid thing to say.

 

Neither. It's usually a complacent issue: getting too "Lazy" (not the word I want to use, but for the sake of argument...) while in uniform, instead of keeping an eye out at all times and sticking to your training.

While I can't speak for every police shooting that occurs, many of them stem from either simply being complacent or not taking a situation serious enough. There's also many instances where officers either hesitate at the moment of truth (Officer Dinkheller comes to mind), or they are ambushed (as the officers in Dallas were).

Most of those are avoidable. Unfortunately, no, not every officer death is avoidable, but if you stick to your training and don't get complacent while on duty, then you stand a better chance of going home to your family.

Some cops forget that wearing a uniform and driving a marked patrol car is literally like wearing a and driving a giant target for those who want to kill cops. And this has never been more evident until now.

I'd rather have a gun in my hand and a fighting chance, then die cowering under a desk in some university classroom.

 

I would expect a college student to be vigilant and aware of his/hers surroundings at all times. That's something everyone can do; whether you wear a uniform and badge or not.