Vagabond63
Gold Member
So are you saying that PC Plod, can get up in the morning, walk into his station and ask the Sergeant for a gun because he has a bad feeling about his shift?The taser was invented in the 1960s, true. I just said, "the past" but never specified any given year or decade, do pay attention and try to keep up, there's a good chap.The point is that Tasers weren't around in "the past", Neither were computers or pepper sprays, or body cams, or stab vests, etc. Police everywhere in the world adapt to advances and changes in technology and adopt that which they find useful to do their jobs with maximum safety for all concerned. Apart from RWNJs over here, no one, especially the Police service itself, is advocating that police officers should be armed with firearms as a matter of course.Blah, blah, bull****! 1,044 Police officers in the Northamptonshire Constabulary are to be trained in the use of Tasers and issued accordingly. 1,044 officers out of 126,326 police officers in the UK. Hardly "all" of them. The reality is that any police officer can apply to be trained and issued with a Taser if he or she qualifies; this has been the case since 2004. They are normally issued to firearms units as a non-lethal alternative to their Glock 17s and HK MP5s.
This thread is another of our resident NRA schill's pathetic attempts to fearmonger.
And the fact that they now need them....as opposed to the past......is the point.....the criminal culture is changing in Britain...
As for "criminal culture". That evolves as a result of changes in society, but police have always risked being attacked while doing their job of enforcing the law, it's called an occupational hazard.
Tasers have been around for 25 years. What rock have you been hiding under?
Police in the UK have had the option to carry a gun for many years. When they do they are issued a Smith & Wesson Model 36. Most don't because they prefer to not be armed. That is however changing with the recent influx of violent third world people entering the UK. You ignore the fact that for the majority of modern European history, they have been much less violent than the rest of the world. Two world wars, and the depopulation from those wars probably have something to do with that, but there have been no studies done that I know of for my assertion. But the low violence rate of Europeans in general is well known.
Now be a good chap and pay attention.