Hmmm in the UK the general population do not have as much experience with firearms as they do in the USA. There is no real legal way of owning handguns so when some neighbours see someone with a pistol they do what I hope any decent member of the public would do and call the police.
What would you rather they do? Assume it's a legal replica and ignore it?
In reply to Mr Keenan's post
Their armed police are a joke, a bunch of untrained, trigger happy goons, running around pointing guns at people for the fun of it and likely as not shooting innocent people when they do open fire
Armed police in the UK recieve a lot more training than those in the USA, and out specialist firearms units are trained to a much higher standard than the officer on patrol in the USA.
With regard to shooting the wrong person, yes that has happened on occasion. Are you telling me Law Enforcement in your country has never shot the wrong person, never arrested a person with a legal CCW, never tasered someone because they failed to complay with their illegal request?
With refernce to this:
And when the cops somehow do blunder into actually solving a crime, the crooks get off with light sentences and go right back to work. If the cops find stolen property, the chances of the rightful owner getting it back are nil. If it has any value, the cops steal it; if it doesn't, they trash it. Many times, police officers have been caught committing crimes, burglary being a favorite. No arrests, no trials, just back to work keeping the public safe
Yes sometimes people get off with a light sentance, do you think that pleases the police? The fact that we have just spend an age finding someone who has commited a robbery, arresting them, interviewing, charging, completing all the paperwork and taking them to court. Of course it doesn't. I wish that we had a more effective judicial system with regards to banging up scrotes but at the moment in some areas it is a bit lax.
So we steal and trash things that have been handed in? Is this in your personal experience, is it something you have read in the news or something you can't actually prove? Also with regards to officers commiting crimes, again in my opinion that is more waffle on your part. If I come across an officer commiting a crime then they will get dealth with just like anyone else.
I can show you countless new stories of officers who have been dealt with by the justice system and of couse have lost their jobs as a result. Nothing annoys a copper more than the idea of a bent copper.
What a lot of you don't seem to realise is that the UK is a very different place to the USA, yes we have some things in common but with regards to the vast majority of things we differ greatly.
People suggest we should all abandon the UK? Erm no, I love my country and I really don't want to move and become a citizen of another country. I hate the fact that while I am on duty I will have at leat 1 firearm about my person yet off duty I can't even carry my handcuffs, yet I am required by law to act as a police officer if I see a crime happen in front of me.
Yes my country has problems, every country does. Half of the threads on any gun board are by people with negative experiences with law enforcement, be it officers detaining and wanting details like name and ssn from someone while open carrying, or a state trooper disarming people during a traffic stop.
I'm sorry my first post is so heated, and please belive me I have a lot in common with you guys. I just do not like to see people posting their own opinion as some kind of fact/
Think ill go order a copy of 1984 now. Irwin
This could be a mental condition brought on by the abrupt lack of 2nd Amendment rights
