Quote Originally Posted by mickd1961 View Post
Not for me Lloyd, I know a local copper who’s a firearms policeman and so is his wife, guns need to be in the hands of the highly trained officers.

If we arm all police we’ll see a massive increase in the number of lowlife carrying guns and incidents of armed violence will increase.

I would certainly arm more police but not every beat bobby, each station should have at least a couple of gun officers available.

We are going to have to be careful we don’t end up making things worse when the reality actually is that these incidents are mercifully rare.

Surely we could use rubber bullets as well as tasers before resorting to guns.

It wouldn’t matter if coppers all carried guns, that poor lad would still have died yesterday and the first couple of coppers would possibly have been caught by surprise.

Whatever we do we will never eradicate this type of event.

I remember going to Feurteventura 20 years ago and weeks previously an innocent shopper had had her head chopped off with a machete whilst in a supermarket.

This stuff is so random.

I also don’t trust all of our police and don’t feel that all of them are competent either.
I also know an Armed policeman ,he won't tell his neighbours what he does , in case his address gets in the wrong hands .
What a crap world we are living ,our Reece.s mate got killed a couple weeks ago in a knife attack .
He had spent his 2 weeks holiday studying for his GCE's and his mom treated him to a nightout at the Pictures ,he will never come home .