How safe would you feel with unarmed police being your protection against armed violent felons? Imagine the outcome of recent shooting in a Colorado church had there not been an armed guard and the responding police were mostly unarmed?
“How safe would you feel with unarmed police being your protection against armed violent felons? Imagine the outcome of recent shooting in a Colorado church had there not been an armed guard and the responding police were mostly unarmed?”
Armed incident are responded to be Armed Response Units:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Response_Vehicle
Also, I would say the outcome would have been similar to Columbine or Virginia Tech.
I remember how pleasantly surprised I was a number of years ago when I visited Italy and saw, for the first time, uniformed police openly carrying MP5's on their regular foot patrols.....it really made me smile and feel safe.
As to your question, if I found myself living in such a country that had unarmed police, I would instantly move to a different one where the police were actually equipped to do the job.