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Originally posted by glen200376
Makes a change from them shooting people.karma is a bitch.edit on 18/9/2012 by glen200376 because: typo
They now routinely carry CS or pepper spray, and Tasers are also widely available. However, it seems there's little appetite for routinely arming the police.
A Police Federation survey, conducted in 2006, of 47,000 officers found that 82% were opposed to the idea.
Originally posted by mikellmikell
As an American I'm totally destroyed we can't even get hand grenades Can someone ship me a case or do they sell them on EBay over there
Originally posted by stirling
Not a chance they deliberately sent two women to their deaths for a bit of social programming..........The goverment loves its slaves
Originally posted by mr-lizard
Secondly, can anyone else see this leading to a call for armed police 24/7?
Originally posted by mr-lizard
www.bbc.co.uk...
Two female police officers have died during an operation which led to the arrest of a man wanted by Greater Manchester Police.
Police said both unarmed officers suffered fatal injuries during a "routine operation" in Hattersley, Tameside.
"Whilst they were inside around a dozen shots were fired and there was an explosion."
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Firstly, why send two unarmed coppers to the location of a suspect wanted for two other violent murders?
Secondly, can anyone else see this leading to a call for armed police 24/7?
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The last thing we need is the police to have more guns, they should be limited to certain departments/unit and that department/unit should have been the one sent inside the building.
(Oh and let's NOT have this thread turn into an American vs British gun debate).
Originally posted by Freeborn
Predictably we get the pro-gun brigade using this tragedy as an opportunity to voice their support of arming our police full time or relaxing our gun laws etc.
Yet they choose to ignore the literally thousands of similar calls that the police answer unarmed and which don't result in shootings.
The police don't want to be armed at all times and the British public agree with them and the majority do not wish any relaxation of our gun laws.
I am disgusted that some people have actually expressed what seems like delight at the deaths of these two WPC's.
I've had more than my fair share of dealings with the police and firmly believe there are many amoral and corrupt officers within their ranks and have reservations about the incestuous relationship between senior officers and other sections of 'the establishment' etc but most coppers are just ordinary, hard working people who just want to do their job.
Any attempt to defend or justify these murders is to my mind pretty low, cheap and just downright lousy.
Originally posted by CX
An after thought.....i'd love to know why he handed himself in straight after?
This is a guy who was already on the run for two murders, then he kills two more, hardly the type to hand himself over.