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Countries where the police are unarmed (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

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.