Zapados@sh.itjust.works to World News@quokk.auEnglish · 5 months agoOfficers call for Police Scotland cars to be equipped with gunswww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square5linkfedilinkarrow-up126arrow-down10cross-posted to: unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·5 months agoBecause police kill people every fucking day by mistake. Many countries do not arm police, they have highly trained squads with guns they call, and those guys don’t spray bullets when they are nervous.
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minus-squaredeHaga@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·5 months agoMore guns = more shootings. It’s pretty fucking obvious.
minus-squareViatorOmnium@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·5 months agoBecause then you either have a tiny police force or you lower standards for gun discipline.
minus-squarelumpenproletariat@quokk.auMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·5 months agoWhy? They’re cops not the military. They shouldn’t exist in the first place, but at least being unarmed is preferable.
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minus-squarelumpenproletariat@quokk.auMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·5 months agoWhere you live there must be no rape/murder/violence because the police stop it all? Empowered communities able to defend themselves are a much better method of preventing and stopping crime than policing is.
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Because police kill people every fucking day by mistake. Many countries do not arm police, they have highly trained squads with guns they call, and those guys don’t spray bullets when they are nervous.
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More guns = more shootings. It’s pretty fucking obvious.
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Because then you either have a tiny police force or you lower standards for gun discipline.
Why? They’re cops not the military. They shouldn’t exist in the first place, but at least being unarmed is preferable.
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Where you live there must be no rape/murder/violence because the police stop it all?
Empowered communities able to defend themselves are a much better method of preventing and stopping crime than policing is.
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