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Plan to give guns to rural police officers (UK)
UK Times ^

Posted on 05/16/2018 4:45:40 PM PDT by ameribbean expat

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To: Boomer
I wonder how long it will take them to realize all law-abiding citizens should have the same right to carry; at least at home.

It will take something comparable to WW-II. Brits had few firearms when the Nazis were bombing the carp out of them, and sending infiltrators ashore. The people of the USA had to send them rifles, handguns, and shotguns, because the British people had mostly been pacified and disarmed by their own government.

21 posted on 05/16/2018 6:58:38 PM PDT by meadsjn
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and the Brit government destroyed most of those donated American guns, The British have long been denied basic rights.


22 posted on 05/16/2018 7:05:59 PM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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To: ameribbean expat

In the UK countryside, when minutes count, the police are only hours away.

Let the citizens arm themselves and handle their own personal defense.


23 posted on 05/16/2018 11:33:07 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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the reason Britain has been able to get away with having unarmed police, is that in general British subjects were civilized. They’ve now imported a bunch of uncivilized muslims and africans into the country. That is a recipe for a dramatic increase in violence of all sorts. They are reaping the whirlwind they sowed.


24 posted on 05/17/2018 6:21:40 AM PDT by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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A contrary view from a senior British police officer:

Manchester Police Chief opposes officers routinely carrying guns

25 posted on 05/18/2018 12:32:27 PM PDT by Winniesboy
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Policing in the modern sense was introduce by Robert Peel, British Prime Minister in the 1840s. Before that there had been only Parish Constables, with much local variation and inconsistency in the way they were appointed and operated. Peel’s new-style police were colloquially known as ‘Peelers’ (a usage which didn’t survive into the 20th century or ‘Bobbies’, which did.


26 posted on 05/18/2018 12:37:18 PM PDT by Winniesboy
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