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Originally Posted by Chloé Palmas
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
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You are going way over the top here: "Sickens", "Irritates", "Cowardly"? There is a compromise and that is where we are now. This can and will be adjusted in light of the moving threat: one such accomodation is the rolling out of Tasers as a option. More armed police may follow if appropriate but it would be a measured response and not a knee jerk one.
I think, ironically, the main reason the UK does not want armed police everywhere is the US. They see what happens there and politely decline.