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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh
We really don't want to arm our police.
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Argh, this is the kind of post that sickens me. Mick...just recently I was saying that Brits are the most passive people on the planet...this is an example. I don't think that it is necessarily indicative of what kind of person she is altogether but this kind of view irritates me. This is part of the reason that I can't see an armed insurrection anytime soon - our populace is too cowardly to even arm the police, let alone anything else.
It kind of reminds me of when John Boehner was talking about why Republicans wouldn't get immigration reform through the house anytime soon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHSWe81f3yw
He knew that there was a camera and that his comments make get noticed but he didn't care - to that extent I know that mine may offend some but ultimately this is preposterous.
I dunno why but this country has a knack of having very feeble attitudes to things that they think are "scary" or "bad" or "mean"...not people, but objects. (Inanimate or otherwise).
Not just over objects though or items, like guns. Everything from privatized healthcare to certain types of food (containing certain ingredients) to certain ownership of animals to everything.
Every nation on the planet has it to some extent but nothing that I have ever seen like this - it is just part of the household furniture in the UK. (Though honestly, they're probably worried about that, too). We are pretty much, a nation of hypochondriacs / unnecessarily passively paranoid people.
The logic behind it all is preposterous, too.
"we really don't want to arm our police"?? No kidding, the things most Brits are most vocal about is banning shit. (For no good reason).
Of course you don't. I do...you don't speak for me. I am not afraid of a gun, nor the idea of a police officer who is otherwise trusted in every other way (cleared / vetted etc), to use a weapon.
It is not too hard, not too difficult - it is a very simple application of weapon that will serve as a
huge deterrent.
If you don't think that Parliament houses themselves should be protected with armed officers I don't really think that there is much point in continuing this conversation.
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Too many armed police around now anyway.
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That is not even remotely accurate! As a percentage, the number of British officers armed (as a proportionate amount of all police officers) is very minute. I think that it is just counter terrorism / flying and burglary squad plus special forces and ops that use guns routinely in the UK police services. It could be slightly different but just about every other country in the world arms it's officers...the UK is apparently different for some reason. (Along with like New Zealand / Iceland and a couple others). It is absurd.
The philosophy is just skewed, something that I would pillory all day. The facts are just outright wrong.