The reason I'm thinking of this is because of the riots, police are unable to act effectively because the country removes power from them when people are able to sue for police brutality.
Our police are equipped with pepper spray and big sticks.
Lets look for a moment at our American cousins... Oh wait, guns and tazers.
Police in this country are simply taken as a joke, and it's not their own fault, it's because we won't allow the use of proper equipment to act as a deterrent.
From what I've heard the riots started after a peaceful protest which occured because a criminal was shot by a police officer. (After shooting at him first I've heard)
If that's the case then good, hats off the the officer. I want to shake his hand. What the fuck country do we live in where someone can shoot at a police officer and people don't expect there to be repercussions for it?
Fuck that. And by the way, I'm saying this from Scotland, so I'm not even near the riots, but I know that if it started here, we wouldn't be doing any better. It'd be the same bullshit.
Edit: I'm aware that arming the police wouldn't stop the riots, (And of course I don't expect them to fire upon people rioting) but it would make people think alot harder before they burn innocent's houses down.
Also, I know our gun control is really tight and that's great, but why can't we maintain that control, ASWELL as arming our police force?
Double edit: Allow me to clear this up, as I think most of you think I want the police to use firearms against the riots, which is not at all what I want. The riots are simply what got me thinking of the police force overall.
Also people are saying that we have special armed police units that are very effective. And that's true, but do they get called in before or after an unarmed police officer with a family waiting at home is gunned down?
Our police are equipped with pepper spray and big sticks.
Lets look for a moment at our American cousins... Oh wait, guns and tazers.
Police in this country are simply taken as a joke, and it's not their own fault, it's because we won't allow the use of proper equipment to act as a deterrent.
From what I've heard the riots started after a peaceful protest which occured because a criminal was shot by a police officer. (After shooting at him first I've heard)
If that's the case then good, hats off the the officer. I want to shake his hand. What the fuck country do we live in where someone can shoot at a police officer and people don't expect there to be repercussions for it?
Fuck that. And by the way, I'm saying this from Scotland, so I'm not even near the riots, but I know that if it started here, we wouldn't be doing any better. It'd be the same bullshit.
Edit: I'm aware that arming the police wouldn't stop the riots, (And of course I don't expect them to fire upon people rioting) but it would make people think alot harder before they burn innocent's houses down.
Also, I know our gun control is really tight and that's great, but why can't we maintain that control, ASWELL as arming our police force?
Double edit: Allow me to clear this up, as I think most of you think I want the police to use firearms against the riots, which is not at all what I want. The riots are simply what got me thinking of the police force overall.
Also people are saying that we have special armed police units that are very effective. And that's true, but do they get called in before or after an unarmed police officer with a family waiting at home is gunned down?
