Should the police carry guns?

madison018

if that's what they are fighting against, then shouldn't they? if you were going to save someone from the evil bad guy and the bad guy had automatic guns and you had swords and sticks, who do you think would win? perhaps if we had stricter laws to obtain guns in this country, then the police wouldn't have to carry guns, but until then...

Lloyd P

if they didnt they would end up getting killed

andrew w

yes the thugs do why not the cops

of course. If they dont', the criminals will lhave all the opportunity in this world to do what ever they wanted to do. Many police officers were killed in the line of duty carrying guns, what more if they don't carry a gun? It is a matter of common sense.

Kevin

Yes, we all have the right to bare arms!

shel_bug66

What is more humane: to accurately place one 9mm slug and drop the assailant in one fail swoop.
OR
just for one second pretend the weapon brandishing suspect is not quick on the trigger, you are able to pull out your mk9 and spray him in the face and incapacitate him long enough to approach him while cross drawing your pr24 and if you are lucky get to him before he gets a shot off. After you enter your lucky streak you are able to pummel him with blow after blow to the green zones but he is still fighting and you have not succeeded in getting his .45 magnum out of his stone cold hand so you decide you need to fight for you life and take it to the red zones. Eventually you have a dead, bludgened and bloody victim laying at your feet and you better be a good report writer because the media is all over your #%&* and you are sure to go to IA and the DFRB before it is all over and tell them why you used excessive force to kill the man who was trying to kill you. You were better off to just stand there and let him shoot you and serve his 5-10 at the local country club at a cost of $40,000.00 a year to the tax payers.
Yes, cops should carry as many guns as they can possibly carry at any given time.

John G

I am a police officer.

I do not like guns, I have never liked guns and I probably never will like guns. We do not carry guns because we think we are cool. We carry guns in the hope that we will never have to use it.

We have extensive training with our weapons and know the capabilities of it.

I would agree to police not having guns if everyone else did not have guns. How would you feel if you were being held at gunpoint by a criminal and when the police arrived we could do nothing but watch even when the dumb *** fired at us.

So my ultimate answer to your question is "YES" police should and will forever be allowed to carry guns. After all it is not the police who have guns you have to worry about. It is the crazy guy sitting next to you on the subway.

Visit the site listed below and maybe you will see why it is important.

driving_me_crazy

My boyfriend is a police man in the UK and he says no!! I thought this was crazy but he said the more guns the police carry the more guns the criminals carry. Look at America, their gun crime is a lot higher because you need bullets to fight bullets. I do think in some instances guns are needed but that is what Police Fire Arms units are for.
Plus have you ever seen a baton??!! They really hurt and the police are trained to use them to kill if needs be.

Ollie

Violence breeds violence so i say 100per cent NO

Sun M

yeah, to kill other pigs with.

mike g

of course, why would you ask this?

fr_chuck

Yes

sneezy

Yes, criminals sure do. They have to have a way to defend themselves.

zinc

if noone had guns in the 1st place there would be no need.

bigonegrande

They have to.

Babi

Not real guns. Those pepper weapons are ok, I guess... or ones with tranquilizers.

tacrj

NO!

The only exception is when dealing with actual crime situations where guns are present.

This policy should be strictly monitored.

idlehands

Of course they should carry guns. Even the British police have learned this.

yankeechik

Of course they should. That's a stupid question!!!

monkeyface

Yes. These days many criminals are carrying guns & knives. The poor "bobby" on the beat with a whistle & truncheon can't do much to defend himself or anyone else. Police with guns would act as a deterant.

bert

What? just so they can shoot afew more innocent people

MP US Army

everyone who is not a convicted felon who wants to should be able to carry one.

okchico

Yes the police should carry guns. They should carry guns and ammo and have assault rifles available to them at all times. Too many illegal guns on the streets mean cops without guns are sitting ducks. More and more uneducated teenager gangsta wannabe's are carrying guns making our world unsafe. We need a way to deter crime so let them carry guns.

zingrajul

in US they do carry gun and maybe both them and the public are used to it but here in Britain they never carried guns and the first day that they did they killed an innocent man on the under ground platform

dcukldon

YES - Protection for themselves and the public.

A stick and some gas just aint good enough.. They get paid to deal with the scum of the earth the least we can do is give them the kit to deal with it..

But i do belived it should be a choice available to the officers as some will and some will not want to carry firearms. The criminal allready have guns why should we expect the police to go rushing in if they havent got the kit to deal with it..

little weed

Arming the police would only result in more criminals carrying guns. My daughter is an police officer and I wouldn't like to think that she and hundreds of other ordinary PC's would be in the position that they have to make a split second decision to shoot someone dead. They do not receive enough backing from this incompetant poitically correct government so as soon as they were to shoot someone the officer himself would be the subject of an enquiry as to whether it was really necessary to kill a criminal. Therefore they would always be in fear of losing their jobs. At the moment the police are choked by red tape and can't do right for doing wrong,so carrying guns would be another nail in the coffin.

jab92593

Of course they should!

turboweegie

Absolutely. They just need to use them more. Save the public time, money and effort. A dead perp doesn't need a public defense lawyer, a trial, paperwork, a cell and cannot harm the public again. How could you not like that?

boy_jam_arch

yes.big gun

DaveyMcB

I presume you are talking about the UK here? If so then we have had this debate in a University lecture, and we came to the conclusion that it would be 'unfair' (for want of a better word) for a police officer to legally be allowed to carry a sidearm unless the public were allowed to keep hand guns themselves.

Hope this helps!

lilmissykato DOF

Ofcourse! No one would obey the law if the police had no way to enforce it.

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