Another Bobbies with guns question

[An_Gadai]

@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.

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.

[tomndebb]

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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