Inefficient

Tuesday December 27, 2005 - 10:33PM EDT

So I see this video on TV of a knife wielding lunatic and what looks to be 12 or more police officers surrounding this person with at least 7 of them guns drawn and aimed at this man. All I could think of was how horribly ineffeicient handguns are in some situations. All these officers want to do is stop this man from hurting anybody or himself. The most effective way to do that without them getting hurt is their handguns. How pathetic is that. The police don't have a choice. Well they do sort off. Go hand to hand combat with a knife wielding crazyman and probably get stabbed or take a shot. There are probably a good number of cops who would go hand to hand but you can't blame someone for not doing that. The police have nothing in their arsenal to incapacitate a person reliably instantly without having a high chance of hurting someone permanently.

In the movies you always see hightech non-lethal weaponwary. Traquilizer darts that instantly put someone to sleep, stun guns that work with unbelievable efficiency, incapacitating foam. Those things don't exist.