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Originally Posted by Rob
Firstly, RIP to the officers. 
I too have to question whether routing arming of the police could have prevented these murders. I doubt it. If they were lured to the property, on which the police say they had no prior intelligence, it seems to me that the offender always had an intention to kill. All that might have changed with routine arming, is for the murders to become "suicide by cop" |
I reckon the evil sod new that in the near future he was going to end up inside for the rest of his life so he set out to kill these police women so that when he gets inside he will live like a king
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Originally Posted by Sparkle
The US is a different situation however, where everyone is armed the police needs to be. Not so in this country.
There are countless instances of accidental shootings by police in the US, everything from mistaken identity to dogs being shot by police.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012...g-address?lite
Its not exactly rocket science, when you arm the police and firearms are present at every call out, more people are going to die. |
I'm always against using America as a argument for or against arming the police because the yanks have a constitution that gives everyone the right to have a gun ,i think it's been restricted a lot more these days but back in the day everyone carried a gun so it was natural to arm the police.Our history is a little different and we have no such right to own or carry a gun so it has never been required for the police to be routinely armed .
I think things are vastly different these days ,the ease in getting hold of deadly weapons like guns and grenades makes it almost inevitable that one day soon police will be armed routinely imo