Even the British are starting to understand it takes a good guy with a gun to stop bad guys with or without a gun sometimes.
The hope and pray method of policing ended with the invasion of cavemen into the UK.
Soon all police in the UK will be armed out of necessity. Probably have to keep all police paired up too.
I say no armed police unless the citizens are armed as well.
Government good guys with guns have a way of turning into bad guys when citizens are unarmed.
Screw that. Make the cops as unarmed and defenseless as the subjects of the Crown are.
Not so much as a potato peeler for them.
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