Ft Collins - knife - 21' rule

https://www.coloradoan.com/story/new...mes/884711001/

Well, he got what he wanted. Pretty crappy to involve the police as unwilling suicide accomplices, not that we're talking about a stable person to begin with.

Yet bleeding hearts still denounce excessive force. Ft Collins has just about overtaken boulder.

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Originally Posted by Great-Kazoo

Yet bleeding hearts still denounce excessive force. Ft Collins has just about overtaken boulder.

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The Californication of Colorado is strong in west Windsor, too. I'm surrounded by liberal soccer moms who think the government should "do something" about the coyotes "threatening" their yippy kick dogs who roam off leash in their unfenced back yards. Ironically, their neighborhood is called "Country Farms."

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Originally Posted by NFATrustGuy

The Californication of Colorado is strong in west Windsor, too. I'm surrounded by liberal soccer moms who think the government should "do something" about the coyotes "threatening" their yippy kick dogs who roam off leash in their unfenced back yards. Ironically, their neighborhood is called "Country Farms."

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In Windsor?

Man I don't feel like it was that long ago that Windsor and Ft. Collins were conservative areas wanting their guns and to be left alone...even with the college campus. When I was younger my friends and I would try to hang with the CSU girls since they tended to be more conservative and "country." Can't believe how this state has changed.

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Originally Posted by Great-Kazoo

Yet bleeding hearts still denounce excessive force. Ft Collins has just about overtaken boulder.

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Those same people sing a very different tune if crazy guy with a knife is given the space to destroy and comes after them.

I for one am happy such things are dealt with in the street and not on my doorstep.

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Originally Posted by Skip

Those same people sing a very different tune if crazy guy with a knife is given the space to destroy and comes after them.

I for one am happy such things are dealt with in the street and not on my doorstep.

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You hit the nail on the head. The vast majority have never seen this real like and probably never will. When it's a video and you're safe it's much easier to criticize.

Can't say they were trigger happy and didn't give the dude a chance . . . seemed pretty determined to get himself ventilated. If you charge a cop with a knife, you're gonna have a bad day.

AK47 bayo..

Just the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZgmN0l-hog

Same, thought there was some new rule about knives that are nearly two feet long.

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Originally Posted by foxtrot

Haven't woken up this morning yet. Read the title and thought:

"Surely he means 21 inch knife rule" "But why would there be a 21" knife rule, that's a really arbitrary cutoff and that's a freaking short sword at that point".

Freaking brain.

[Coffee]

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But, but, they could have shot shot his hand or something..... Play stupid games, suffer the consequences.


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I don't see what else could have been done. The officer waited for back-up before attempting a non-lethal response and the subject charged him. I feel sorry for the officers, and very glad they did not suffer a cross fire casualty.