'bout time we did it isn't it. Police with guns?

Look at Norway

Every town has a 'commando unit' trained to use guns and the situations that arise involving guns. Let the everyday bobby do his job as normal. But when the **** hits the fan the 'commando unit' are there in a shot!

 

agree

proof in the pudding is in the US. on every real life cop show you see a copper pull over a speeding motorist and get his gun out everytime. now, no offence but i don't think speeding needs some jumped up copper pointing a gun at me, getting jumpy and blowing my head off. coppers will get the gun out everytime

 

or....

randon home at 5am
cops - #smash door down, race upstairs guns out# "you're under arrest"
father of 2 - #very groggy, startled awake thinking what the **** is going on, burglars, reaches for the cricket bat#
cops - #see father reaching for something#
father of 2 - #dead from multiple gunshots#

don't think it can happen? 5 years ago at 5am coppers raided my mums home looking for smackheads. her partner thought they were being burgled (bit groggy, had 7 pints night before too) and he reached for cricket bat under bed. coppers saw him reaching for something barricaded the door as they thought it was a gun, snatched my brother and sister from their beds and called the armed response unit. totally wrong address

if they'd have had guns they'd have shot him - no doubt

 

totally irrelevant

It wouldn't have had any effect on this incident. we have armed police units anyway who are called in when it is thought they are needed.

 

RE: totally irrelevant

Bit late when the bobby on the beat is staring down the barrel of a gun though

 

Must I have one?

Post some official figures and you go off on one. Dead friendly this board eh?

 

Don't forget Ads

That to Copyright the idea you'll need to write it down and then send it to yourself in a sealed envelope.

Can't understand why you've got so many Ripper Masks left, I would have thought that they would have been first off the shelf

 

Definately not ...

The last thing we want to do is put more guns out there. It stands to reason, if your average scroate thinks he may get shot, he'll get himself ready for it.

Arming the regular police would be madness in my view.

Not to mention that I can think of more than a few coppers I know who would be just as dangerous as the criminals if you put guns in their hands!

 

RE: totally irrelevant

Or when an innocent by-stander gets caught in the crossfire.