# Another Bobbies with guns question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bobbies-with-guns-question/423371>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 20, 2007, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bobbies-with-guns-question/423371 "2007-10-20T03:58:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2007, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bobbies-with-guns-question/423371/81 "2007-10-22T23:08:22Z")

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[QUOTE=williambaskerville]  
In Ireland, the police are unarmed. And remained unarmed all thru’ a significant terrorist campaign. There was a court case recently where an unarmed Garda (Irish policeman) apprehended and arrested 2 armed bank robbers who had already shot someone. I suspect that if the police here were armed that episode would have resulted in fatalities, possibly the Garda’s.  
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However, it should be noted that the police force in _Northern_ Ireland is armed and also Northern Ireland is still a part of the UK, so saying the police in the UK aren’t armed isn’t entirely correct.

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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bobbies-with-guns-question/423371/82 "2007-10-23T04:23:55Z")

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Closed at the request of the OP.

Those wishing to continue a transAtlantic gun control debate may open a new thread (as you should have done in this one).

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