Police shoot man who stabbed student in synagogue

[Posteritatis]

81. Because trick shots like that outside of movies are completely unrealistic.

And "a couple of shots to the legs" can kill almost as quickly as one to the head depending on where you hit (which you'd only have limited control over in that situation) and where the round ricochets if it hits bone (which you'd have no control whatsoever over).

Also, the range is the length of his arm plus the length of the knife plus however far he could push off on one leg if he decided to do an enthusiastic, skilled, or just adrenaline-laced lunge. We're at six, seven feet there assuming that's the only movement.

You'd be fairly astonished at how far someone could move a weapon they're carrying if they feel driven to do so, and in far too short an amount of time to have any reaction so conscious as "aim for the leg" (which, to reiterate, can be swiftly fatal on its own).