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Old 18-08-2018, 18:36   #31
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Re: Car crashes in to Pedestrians outside Houses of Parliament

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Just because they say so, doesn't mean it's true...

The NRA was founded in 1871 to “‘promote and encourage rifle shooting on a scientific basis.’”

It did not begin lobbying for gun rights until 1934, when its Legislative Affairs Division was formed - the NAACP was founded in 1909, which makes it older.
Well, 1934 was a significant year when it came to 2nd Amendment issues. That was the year the National Firearms Act went into effect. The prospect of serious infringement on the right of the people to keep and bear arms had become a reality and opposition to that intrusion on a key fundamental right became an imperative.
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I always approach this sort of suggestion with ‘what difference would it have made in the incident under discussion’? On the video, it was 8 seconds between the car crossing the central reservation until it hit the barrier, and it was only visible to the police at the barrier for 4 seconds.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45193781

In this case, I can’t see how armed officers would have made a difference?
Sorry for the late reply, the double post feature means that I always wait between replies ; never like doubling up as my posts may not render well, when it comes to formatting purposes.

In this instance I truly think that the possibility of armed officers would have been enough of a deterrent ; not sure that the guy would have necessarily been hit by an officer's bullet when in a car but I think the likely tendency that he wouldn't have gone ahead and driven a car into pedestrians in the area (given that he clearly didn't want to die) would have been far higher.

So, for example (as Luther says) you can't protect everyone all the time, so the likely chance of pushing him elsewhere would have been higher but in a high target area (like the HoP for example) surely that security is warranted even if it does just squeeze terror / whatever this was into more civilian areas...no?

Unless we put armed guards everywhere but that won't work so driverless cars may indeed fix some of this. (At least for vehicular based crimes).
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driverless cars may indeed fix some of this. (At least for vehicular based crimes).
On the contrary hacked driverless cars may be an even more sinister menace as the malefactors don't even have to commit suicide to perpetrate their atrocities.
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Well, 1934 was a significant year when it came to 2nd Amendment issues. That was the year the National Firearms Act went into effect. The prospect of serious infringement on the right of the people to keep and bear arms had become a reality and opposition to that intrusion on a key fundamental right became an imperative.
See, this is why I need you here, to make these kinds of points!!! I can argue from heart / ideologically as to why we need guns etc but I don't have the history of armed insurrections / the founding of the NRA etc - you do that part.

I am the gun nut who is crazy, you are the balanced one who doesn't opine on the prevalence of the issue.
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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
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.
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You are going way over the top here: "Sickens", "Irritates", "Cowardly"?
I thought that I was going easy / kind. The comments do anger me some, but I try keep it civil. I thought that I was being polite to her!!

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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 totally agree on that last line, I would have wanted this years ago. Long before the attacks of the last year or two....before 7/7. Before 9/11, too. I always thought that it was absurd that growing up in a household with guns (pre ban), that we were more armed than the average police officer on the street.

Kind if messed up, no?
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Well, 1934 was a significant year when it came to 2nd Amendment issues. That was the year the National Firearms Act went into effect. The prospect of serious infringement on the right of the people to keep and bear arms had become a reality and opposition to that intrusion on a key fundamental right became an imperative.
That may be so, but the original premise was that the NRA was the oldest "civil rights" organisation in the USA, which was not the case.
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It is. It is the same organization is it not?

Founded before the NAACP and didn't go through an Acorn style "rebranding" so it is still the same organization, IMO.
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It is. It is the same organization is it not?

Founded before the NAACP and didn't go through an Acorn style "rebranding" so it is still the same organization, IMO.
But until 1934, it wasn’t in the "civil rights" arena - it’s like me saying I have been in the RAF all my life, even though I didn’t join until I was 17 and a half - one can’t pre-date activities from when before one started them..
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Re: Car crashes in to Pedestrians outside Houses of Parliament

Seems to me that we have gone way off topic.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45236971

Charged with attempted murder and it is being treated as terrorism
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Seems to me that we have gone way off topic.
Sorry, that was on me.

Hugh I see what you mean and yes you are correct, it is an issue that probably doesn't fit into the category that I was trying to mold it into. (Round hole / square peg etc).

My larger point that this event could have been stopped if there were armed policemen / women present and that seems to be of some dispute. (As most things should be if just an opinion, not a fact).

I will leave it be, though.
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Sorry, that was on me.

Hugh I see what you mean and yes you are correct, it is an issue that probably doesn't fit into the category that I was trying to mold it into. (Round hole / square peg etc).

My larger point that this event could have been stopped if there were armed policemen / women present and that seems to be of some dispute. (As most things should be if just an opinion, not a fact).

I will leave it be, though.
From the original link in the original post.

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The suspect, a 29-year-old British national, was arrested at the scene after armed police officers swooped on a silver Ford Fiesta that had crashed into security barriers on St Margaret Street at about 7.40am on Tuesday.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/45180945

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-451...ter-crash-site
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Re: Car crashes in to Pedestrians outside Houses of Parliament

After...

There were no armed guards protecting the building in front or behind the gates at the time of the incident...

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So much for this by the way:

http://observer.com/2017/04/armed-gu...rorist-attack/

(Though as I understand it they are not there when parliament is not in session).
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I am not afraid of a gun, nor the idea of a police officer who is otherwise trusted
I'll take a wild guess that your white and middle class.

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/18/u...ses/index.html

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In this instance I truly think that the possibility of armed officers would have been enough of a deterrent
. Forget about this guy as he isn't even a terrorist. But if you think armed police will deter fanatics you're an idiot.

How many armed police would have stopped the Manchester bomber?...........Zero that's how many.

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Stop snorting Harpic.
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