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Originally Posted by jimbuna
My pleasure...the problem as I see it isn't arming the Police but making it harder for these scumbags to get a hold of the weapons in the first place.
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Bingo, there's units like SO19 and the like to deal with potential firearms incidents, but if you start putting guns into the hands of the average Bobby, and then skimp on the training (which we would because of budget cuts) then you run the risk of having things like the shoot-out at the Empire State building happen.
The bigger problem, IMHO, if I'm honest, is knife crime. That's where the real figures lie and it's much harder to deal with than gun crime.