British fugitive shoots dead two unarmed policewomen

[Hillie4life]

http://news.yahoo.com/two-policewomen-killed-shooting-northern-england-145910968.html

Someday they'll learn.

One of Britain's most wanted fugitives killed two unarmed policewomen on Tuesday in a gun and grenade ambush, police said, killings which are likely to reignite a long-running debate over whether British officers should carry guns

"Sadly we know from the experience in America and other countries that having armed officers certainly does not mean sadly that police officers do not end up getting shot dead."

 

[SteelShooter]

I heard the Bobby in Chief say that they are sure that having unarmed Police is the best way to go, as evidenced by the police killed in America, it doesn't help if the police are armed. I have to admit, I'm a little torn between the two.

 

[Boris]

The legacy of British Empire is melting away as the whole country further sinks into retardation.

 

[midas]

Like lambs to the slaughter.

 

[cekim]

I heard the Bobby in Chief say that they are sure that having unarmed Police is the best way to go, as evidenced by the police killed in America, it doesn't help if the police are armed. I have to admit, I'm a little torn between the two.

The purpose of LEOs being armed is so that they might defend themselves if presented with deadly force in the course of their duties.

Same self-defense we are all entitled to.

The real problem is the concept of using firearms to demand compliance when no lethal threat is presented. The fact that people have come to believe THIS is why police are armed is the problem. Not the guns themselves.

 

[SteelShooter]

The purpose of LEOs being armed is so that they might defend themselves if presented with deadly force in the course of their duties.

Same self-defense we are all entitled to.

The real problem is the concept of using firearms to demand compliance when no lethal threat is presented. The fact that people have come to believe THIS is why police are armed is the problem. Not the guns themselves.

Agreed. But the thought of not getting shot when answering my door is very appealing.

 

[cekim]

Agreed. But the thought of not getting shot when answering my door is very appealing.

Same with any crime, it is the meatbag behind the gardening tool, not the gardening tool that kills you...

The rampant abuse and proliferation of the SWAT concept is very much tied to the "compliance at gunpoint" view of police work to which this nation has degraded.

 

[MisterHappy]

Sad for the Coppers, and their families, but at least the BritCops are as well [un]armed as Joe Bloggs (that's their version of Joe Blow or John Doe).

Remember...this is what the society over there wants.

 

[Palladin]

But, but, we have whistles!!!

 

[shadowr434]

http://news.yahoo.com/two-policewomen-killed-shooting-northern-england-145910968.html

Someday they'll learn.

This cant be right,guns are illegal in the UK.

 

[Zappa]

The legacy of British Empire is melting away as the whole country further sinks into retardation.

We're not far behind them [sad2]

 

[WanMan99]

mmm... Maybe they should bring more than a nightstick to a gunfight..... Just saying...

 

[StevieP]

The whole thing is un-possible. Guns are illegal in England. So there's NFW that a career criminal could acquire one, and use it on un-armed police women.

A grenade, too? I call double bullshit.

 

[oldyankee]

Maybe we should ask some of our citizens to send arms to the British in their time of need. Oh wait, we already did that once.

 

[Jose]

I've tried to feel sorry for the British in general and those two cops in particular. But I can't. Sorry. I can't. They have bought into the lie and are just as complicit as their rulers.

 

[timbo]

Sad for the Coppers, and their families, but at least the BritCops are as well [un]armed as Joe Bloggs (that's their version of Joe Blow or John Doe).

Remember...this is what the society over there wants.

If Hitler had waited 50 years, he could've walked into Trafalgar Square...

 

[KiloVictorTango]

this is unpossible, you can't get a gun in the U.K., especially if your a fugitive!

 

[gearjunky13]

I dont know where they get there facts from but it was my understanding that the biggest danger to police In the usa are car accidents, not shootings. And i do believe police should be armed. Its there right just like ours, but i dont think they should controle the ability for us to carry as well.

Hay we all know they lie out there ass over there. just remember all info as ether facts or statistics can be made out to look how ever one wants, if you control the info you just add or leave out somthings to make it favor your views, its not what you say its how you say it

 

[PureProwess]

Wait so Cops in Britain can't carry a gun? WTF?

 

[Zarathustra11]

Where's Piers Morgan when you need him, these events simply do not happen in countries with strict gun control laws.

 

[Jose]

Wait so Cops in Britain can't carry a gun? WTF?

Good morning Mr Van Winkle......

 

[Jose]

And i do believe police should be armed. Its there right just like ours, but i dont think they should controle the ability for us to carry as well.

Live in the right place and they don't.

 

[MisterHappy]

If Hitler had waited 50 years, he could've walked into Trafalgar Square...

Well, he'd have probalbly needed a walker, or at least a cane....he'd be kinda old....

 

[timbo]

Well, he'd have probalbly needed a walker, or at least a cane....he'd be kinda old....

this too is true

 

[Pilgrim]

It only makes sense that if citizens can't have guns, then the coppers can either. What's fair is fair.

tweeeeet tweet tweet...."Halt ! Halt or I'll holler halt again !"

 

[atilla]

Wait so Cops in Britain can't carry a gun? WTF?

they carry feathers and can only unholster them when it's a life or death situation. OI IT'S TICKLE TIME!

 

[cekim]

they carry feathers and can only unholster them when it's a life or death situation. OI IT'S TICKLE TIME!

Dual purpose, if things get really rough, they can use the quills to fashion a sternly worded letter.

 

[Jsfitzgerald85]

If Hitler had waited 50 years, he could've walked into Trafalgar Square...

Your not kidding, its a joke. How does a Nation go from having one of the largest Empires, being feared throughout the world, to what they are now?

 

[MisterHappy]

One reasonable step at a time.

 

[cekim]

Your not kidding, its a joke. How does a Nation go from having one of the largest Empires, being feared throughout the world, to what they are now?

They overextend themselves, spread their military all over the world, create enemies everywhere in the process, pander domestically by handing out entitlements and generally providing the temporary illusion of a standard of living beyond that which their economy will support.

Same as Rome and others before. Same as the United States after.