[lostalex]

Originally Posted by MTVN

No, it's unnecessary and the police themselves don't even want to be armed, 82% of them are against it

I also think we've had enough cases of the few armed police we have shooting people unlawfully so as not to want every single police officer in the country to have a gun

but recent events/revelations have shown that cops in the UK don't need guns to cause unnecessary death, do they. Well i shouldn't say recent, the Met has quite a history of it...