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Originally Posted by Christmas Sherry

How would you have stopped the guy mowing down the public in France without a gun DR?

Both the gendarmerie and the municipal police have a choice of carrying arms and in big cities most of them are expected to.

A visible armed police force won’t or at least shouldn’t settle the nerves of the anxious public because when you look at it logically, no amount of armed police are going to stop someone walking down any high street or through any busy shopping center and blowing themselves up. The chances are, they will kill as many police officers as possible.