Message from @GingaBomber
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Because they could not look weak
@Poppy Rider when your police don't have guns, you need like 8 officers for one knife wielding person. And still probably need to call in the special team with guns.
@Grenade123 they get the person alive most of the time thanks to this
also we stil lhave armed response teams 😛
@Grenade123 I do not want our cops armed as normal uniform. You don't need a gun you just need to know that you are not going to get sued for smashing someone round to head.
@wacka did I note mention that?
have you seen police at heathrow... they carry automatic rifles
Honestly in my experience the met cops were corteous and very professional ppl
The problem is they are understaffed
Stupid Yanks see that video of that bloke on the bike with a knife smashing the car window and say 'see, this is why you need guns.' completely missing the point that the bloke on the bike would of had a gun as well and just shot through the window.
And doing stupid bulshit like monitoring twitter
Yeah, cant go after rapists, lets arrest this guy for insulting someone
@zutt yes, very good. Meanwhile 8 other people got stabbed because your force is over worked, you now have one more person who was just hell bent on killing people taking of tax payer money in a cell. And if I call the police they may not respond because of all the other knife wielding people.... Which could be like 4 taking up a whole police force. When a tazer and a gun limits that down to just 2 officers per incident. And the first officer to respond can at least contain the situation.
Also, dont they have grenades in Sweden?
I heard grenade attacks happen there as well
Although the level of gun training most us cops get is way too pathetic.
Actually, there is an argument there as well
Granade except that their response times are ok
That since the average person is possibly armed, they are jumpier
When called they show up quickly
i'v got no problem with pepper spray and tazers but I don't want cops carrying guns on the regula.
And well.. THe media isnt helping either showing them as racist in the US.
Then maybe solve the issue that made it a nessesity
No one wants to walk down the street surrounded by men in blue with mp5s.
Though I might be wired wrong... It only makes me want to take pictures
Anyway this current crime wave will not be solved by officiers carriing guns
You nead whole complex approach
Its the simplest really. Hope the potential criminals are rational enough to know that that TV in there is not worth 3 rounds in the chest
When the cops are armed to gangs have to keep up.
Hence why the common person must be armed
no, of course not. but banning knives doesn't solve it either
Most of those gangs are operating on selling drugs
Well, like the prohibition era when you could sell most firearms but not alcohol
Guess who could actually afford firearms?
Either cops or the Mafia
So legalize drugs somehow?
I mean that was a suggestion, worked with alcohol;
Or more like, banning alcohol didnt work
but i don't like a policy that means you need almost more officers than citizens, and the citizens are not allowed to then have the means to protect themselves from that force.
you have made citizens effectively prisoners.