Like what the heck is up with police not carrying guns?
Common sense. Why on earth would you trust more than a handful of people in the police with guns? They're bad enough as it is.I'm going to disagree with you here Al. Although I believe that police weapons obviously should never be used except in cases when there is no other solution, not actually arming policemen is not in any way common snese, when the criminals they're suppouse to fight, gun laws or no gun laws, will be armed. Sometimes things happens in a few matters of minutes, or even seconds, to expect the police, and the criminals, to wait for backup in those situations from special weapon units is not sensible.
I could understand though as to why you wouldn't entrust it to
British police, as I understand your country doesn't have an actual police education in difference to Sweden and America where we have police acadamies (please correct me if I'm wrong), where the aspiering policemen are in fact thought how and when to use their guns.
Most robberies of that sort are over before the police get there. In any case, there are specialised armed units.
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Obviously that is only an example, and as you pointed out maybe not the best one, but there are going to be situations when regular policemen are up against armed criminals, where they won't be able to wait for special units back-up, Cumbria being such an example.
