Posted on 01/14/2016 10:58:04 AM PST by Olog-hai
London has put more armed police officers on the streets - a direct consequence of the attacks on a nightclub and restaurants in Paris last year.
Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe said Thursday that the Metropolitan police will train 600 more firearms officers, increasing the number of armed officers to around 2,800.
The police will also double the number of armed response vehicles - giving authorities the ability to respond quickly to any attack. ...
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No matter how many they arm, they can’t be everywhere.
From the land of gun control...
Why arm them at all. Can’t they just call somebody when there is trouble? /s
Sort of funny the Bobbies did not carry firearms at a time any Brit could get a firearm. There is an inverse relationship between Bobbies needing firearms and the stringency of gun control in the UK.
Ohooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo so they feel the need for guns uh?
Another trump effect. Of course they don’t want him in their country.
They start to realize guns protect people, yet they hate the messenger. Liberalism is a mental disease.
The UK has never been a gun owning/buying public, so even when laws were easier, few British owned one. Guns aren’t just part of our culture as they are in the US. Not wrong, just different.
Its insanity that they are not armed to begin with.
I understand that buying your 11yearold son his first 10-22 or passing down grandpa’s shotgun is not really a rite of passage in England like it is in the US.
At least like it is in my part of the US...
Those days were long gone by WWII.
The Brit's were a more civil also.
The level of crime and violent crime in the UK has never merited it. Even today, we have less than 800 murders a year. Terrorism?. We never had aan all armed police in either world wars or the decades of IRA terrorism.
Neither the public nor police want an all armed police force.
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