It flared up for a short while towards the end of the Bush years, but got laughed at and disappeared.
It's cyclical, the last big push for that was in the late 60's/early 70's when the hippie movement fell apart, and the pop-psych social engineers went hard on how the Free Love movement didn't bring us utopia, but never fear! See, the kids of those hippies are the REAL future because they were raised without the "taint" of capitalist/western/bourgeois society and will grow up to be the enlightened despot... er, leaders of humanity who will bring true commu.... er true EQUALITY.
So under NO circumstances are you to hold back PREFECT moral beings, disciplining your kid is the same as putting them in a gulag because you fear what they might do if given the power to run the world. They'd MAKE YOU LOOK BAD!
Went about as well as you'd imagine.
Anyway couldn't they have shot him in the arm holding the knife?
Yeah, why not shoot the knife out of his hands just like in the movies?!
In short, no, no, no, no A MILLION FUCKING TIMES NO>
You cannot shoot someone in the arm "Just to stop them" in real life.
- FIrst of all, if you are shooting, then lethal force is, by definition, justified. If it's justified, you shoot to KILL not WOUND.
- Trying for an extremity instead of centermass means you probably will miss and hit a bystander, look how many shots miss even in a "regular" shooting between LEOs and suspects.
- There is no "safe" place to shoot a human being. Not even a seeming non-vital extremity like an arm. "Hey, uh, sorry that bullet glanced off your shoulder blade, corkscrewed into your torso, ripped across your aorta and then lodged in your lung, I was only trying to wound you so you'd drop the knife, I wasn't TRYING to make you drown in your own blood like that"