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Takashi Miike
6:49 Sat Mar 25
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no, I wouldn't want every copper carrying a gun. too many fuckwits in the force these days, but coppers like the ones who were guarding the gates of parliament? yes, they should have been armed
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AlvinMartinAllen
6:50 Sat Mar 25
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Yes, and traffic wardens.
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CrowleyHammer
6:55 Sat Mar 25
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arm EVERYONE
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Nurse Ratched
6:55 Sat Mar 25
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Horrible thought. No thanks.
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zebthecat
6:57 Sat Mar 25
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Absolutely not
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Bungo
7:00 Sat Mar 25
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If only everyone had been armed last week in Westminster, (especially the schoolchildren), then this senseless loss of life could easily have been avoided.
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AlvinMartinAllen
7:05 Sat Mar 25
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I'm also a firm believer that there should be a large NINJA division in the police force, with throwing stars and nunchucks.
Stealth like rooftop leaping NINJA GAVVERS all patrolling the streets on tip toe is the future.
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Nurse Ratched
7:08 Sat Mar 25
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Remote controlled wasps.
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Far Cough
7:18 Sat Mar 25
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STOP! Or I will be forced to say STOP again
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cornish
7:18 Sat Mar 25
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Yes, now what's happened and what will happen in the future.it's a sorry world.
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Bungo
7:20 Sat Mar 25
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I wonder whether the Police themselves have an opinion on this?
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GreenStreetPlayer
7:21 Sat Mar 25
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No, but we need tens of thousands more police and security on ferries, around our shores, on our streets.
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Bernie
7:25 Sat Mar 25
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No, we have Armed Police already, more guns is not the answer.
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Nurse Ratched
7:32 Sat Mar 25
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"During the reign of Henry III the Assize of Arms of 1252 decreed that all "citizens, burgesses, free tenants, villeins and others from 15 to 60 years of age" should be armed. The poorest were expected to have a halberd and a knife, and a bow if they owned land worth more than £2. The Plantagenet King Edward III took this further and decreed the Archery Law in 1363 which commanded the obligatory practice of archery on Sundays and holidays! The Archery Law "forbade, on pain of death, all sport that took up time better spent on war training especially archery practise". Henry I later proclaimed that an archer would be absolved of murder, if he killed a man during archery practise!
Parents were to provide every boy from seven to seventeen years of age with a bow and two arrows, and after seventeen he was to provide himself with a bow and four arrows; and butts for the practice of archery were to be erected in every town. Lastly, in order to prevent other pastimes such as football from interfering with archery practice, a penalty of 40s. a day was imposed on every person who shall for his gain, lucre, or living keep any common house, alley, or place of bowling, coiting, clough, eagles, half-bowls, tennis, dicing tables, or carding, or any other game prohibited by any statute heretofore made or any unlawful new game."
Here's the solution to the threat of terrorism in our streets. Revive 14th century Archery Laws.
Less football, coiting and eagles. More arras.
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Far Cough
7:37 Sat Mar 25
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The victories over the French at Agincourt, Crecy and Poitiers was won on the Butts of England
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Alwaysaniron
7:57 Sat Mar 25
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Yes they should be armed in this day and age in our major cities.
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Animal
8:13 Sat Mar 25
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The police overwhelmingly don't want to be armed.
Although some more firearms officers would be nice, especially outside the main cities
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The_Phantom
8:54 Sat Mar 25
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Yes I believe all police should be armed, though not all with guns.
Some could have tazers and those in Devon & Cornwall could probably get away with a balloon on a stick.
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Westside
9:19 Sat Mar 25
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If you mean firearms, then no.
Approximately 10% of the police are authorised and trained to carry firearms, as and when necessary.
This means they are exceedingly well trained.
The number of times the police, issue and deploy firearms (pointing them at somebody) and then DON'T shoot is superb. Unlike America, when you just look at a copper in a funny way and you get your head blown off.
When most police are killed, it is an "ambush" or 1st strike type situation. The poor copper who died on Wednesday was wearing body armour, so the assailant, got his blows in first. The fact the officer didn't have a firearm, didn't contribute to his death.
The last Police Federation survey, showed that 78% of officers, did not want to be armed routinely.
The French police is an armed service. Didn't prevent the massacres that France has suffered.
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Stranded
9:34 Sat Mar 25
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Yes. To accept anything less is simply sending people out into the streets ill-prepared for the day to day tasks required of them. The absence of arms and, presumably, by extension hands, is far too great an obstacle to overcome. No matter how positive the mentality of the officer in question.
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