Every police officer in the country will be armed with a Taser under plans proposed by the Police Federation.Ok, no problem. Can we all be armed with tasers too though? I thought not. Every citizen has been completely disarmed by it's government, yet agents of that government want to be even more heavily armed than they already are.
The group, which represents 124,000 rank-and-file officers in England and Wales, has written to the Prime Minister demanding the number of stun guns be trebled so they can be placed in the hands of every frontline officer.
Coppers routinely carry battons and pepper spray, both of which are illegal for us. Can we really trust them with more when they don't trust us?
Paul Davis, secretary of the federation’s operational policing sub-committee, says the extra Tasers are essential for the safety of officers and the public.The police will not be better able to protect the public with better arms. To protect the public the police have to be there when something goes down.
For every rape, for every mugging and for every violent assault there would need to be a policeman in the immediate area to put a stop to it. The only people that can effectively protect the public are the public themselves.
The police can investigate crimes that have happened and in a few cases they will be able to stop crimes. To prevent crimes from happening in the first instance, the public must be allowed to carry arms themselves.
In the face of cuts to force budgets, fewer police are available to respond to incidents, which means officers are being sent out alone, leaving them vulnerable to attack, he argues.At the risk of repeating myself, the public are also vulnerable to attack. The police do not have the monopoly on self defence, regardless of what they may think.
Trust us to have the equipment necessary to defend ourselves and maybe we will trust you with the same. Until then, no deal.
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And going by the evidence of what happened at the time of the London riots, the police agree with that for non-whites only, seeing as groups of ethnics openly carry weapons in their neighnourhood were tolerated, but groups of unarmed white people in their own neighbourhood weren't tolerated and were told to disperse by the police under threat of arrest.
They're no longer fit to police.
Defend yourself successfully from an unprovoked attack in a public place and our beloved police will arrest and prosecute you.
The PC (police correct) procedure is to lie down and accept whatever your attacker does to you, then the police will come and wring their hands over your lifeless body. Then they will make excuses for your attacker(s). It's their jobbe, after all. It's what they pay themselves to do with your money they've stolen from you under threats of violence against your person. Remember they are public servants and the public are everyone except you.
So that's all right.
DP
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