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How do they apprehend people without arms?
"Stop, criminal scum! You have violated the law!"
"What're you gonna do? Nibble me bum? You haven't any arms you daft bastard!"
Speaking from experience in Ireland, they are still armed with batons, pepper spray and other non lethal measures, along with generally being able to talk people down, who are armed with knives. In the admittedly rare cases of gun violence, we have Armed Response Units who do carry weapons.
In civilized countries, this works.
Because you don't need to threaten someone with death for most crime.
Most NZ police have firearms locked in their vehicles, but not on their person.
I'm a bit confused by the map because in the UK our officers usually carry a baton, spray or in some cases a tazer. They're absolutely not unarmed.
Most don't carry a gun, but I'd also imagine the vast majority of the time they're not dealing with criminals with guns.
Northern Irish police all carry handguns. The UK wide approach doesn't exist.
That's because we have gun control, which I'm told apparently doesn't work.
Americans are often baffled to know that if you've got a good enough reason to have a gun in the UK, you can have one. We just don't dole them out like they're laptops
You’re told that by people who cite their own stupidity for the argument.
Do you... give out laptops? Is that in the Magna Carta or something?
I mean we have our own problems—if you want to sign up to a predatory loan, sure you can have a laptop