Ferguson: too much or not enough?

[popeyespappy]

If you have to shoot at all, put one out there,

There isn't a police force in the US that trains its officers to fire a single shot. I bet they don't train that way in Australia either. The reason cops don't train to fire a single shot is handguns are not reliable fight stoppers. The only way a single shot from a handgun is going to stop a determined person immediately is if it does a large amount of damage to brain, spine or breaks a large bone like a thigh.

Take for example the video of the shooting in Saint Louis. When the police shot that guy he was about 10 feet away coming towards them. 10 feet. That's about three steps or 2ish seconds away. Lets assume for a minute that the guy that got shot did have a knife in his hand. The video showed something long and slender in his hand, and the cop yelling to drop the knife apparently thought he had a knife. Do you really think it would have been a good idea to fire a single shot at someone coming at you with a knife? Shoot once, stop to access the situation, get a butcher knife and throat and die. That doesn't sound like a good idea to me.