[ABStrauss]

What’s Wrong with Britain’s Police?

They don't carry guns.

They're wimps.

[fr_freak]

What’s Wrong with Britain’s Police?
They don't carry guns.
They're wimps.

The English police's lack of guns used to be a sign of the strength of their society - a cultural cohesion which made such things mostly unnecessary. Our cops in the USA carry all that firepower because we have always had far less of a homogeneous society and therefore a greater propensity for shooting each other, as well as a rockier relationship between government and citizen..