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Originally Posted by Red October1984
I just saw the coverage of this on CNN.
The first problem is that most English cops don't even carry guns. I know that the people aren't allowed to have guns.
I'm also reading on Wikipedia about gun incidents with British Police... It seems that they are very very very very trigger happy....They open fire before they know for sure, seems like. Like the time where Jean Charles de Menezes was shot 7 times in the back of the head because they mistook him for a bombing suspect. Maybe I'm only seeing one side of this. It's an issue for the British people to decide on.
The only thing they could do was perfectly capture the man, the blood, the weapons and the confession on camera. Gee, nobody thought "Let's tackle the guy?" or anything like that?  |
When I read these comments and think of an appropriate response I say to myself "No, don't get involved...it's not really necessary".
Stealhead in his immediate response just about sums it up more professionally than I might have.