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Originally Posted by Derek
Balls. Do all petty criminals carry a knife or baseball bat now? Does every petty criminal in Northern Ireland carry a gun?
99.99% of the time the Police will never need to use or draw it but for that 1 times you need it it's better the Police have a gun rather than end up dead in the street.
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Gun crime will increase more Police officers will die in the line of duty if they all carry guns , It does not take a genius to see that surely?
Guns would not have saved these offices and if they were armed there is a good chance 2 guns would have ended up in the criminal underworld
Look at America in some states everyone has a gun do the Police carrying guns stop crime? No and look at Texas they have the Death Penalty they love using it yet still there are murders
Also look at what happened recently where 1 man killed another then a Police officer killed innocents.
I do not think all the Police should be armed no way no how
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Originally Posted by Sirius
So would you if you was a copper be willing to face a ******* armed with a
Knife
axe
samurai sword
Gun
and have nothing to defend yourself with other than a bloody stick and some pepper spray, i know i would not ???
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not many carry guns due to the heavy penalty in getting caught with one. If they thought there was a good chance of being faced with someone with a gun that will change. Some criminals really do not care and getting a gun is not hard not that I have tried
As for the majority of Police work they are trained to defend against the knife if attacked with an axe or sword the just keep your or a car between you and the assailant while you call for back up