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Forgive a daft limy asking a silly question. Do American police really 'normally' carry rifles now? Sounds bloody scary.
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@YaBoiZackbannedmefordissent I'm sorry but I don't understand that? Possibly as I'm a bit old and don't use social media so memes are lost on me. My comment was not supposed to be derogatory. I visited the USA around 20 years ago and thoroughly enjoyed my visit (and the people)
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@oldesertguy9616 and Patrick, thanks for your messages. Interesting, it's always fun to learn about other cultures. It's a big difference to here
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@Roddy556 I'd disagree if I was a police officer who lived somewhere where such things were needed. And I wouldn't like being a normal citizen in a place where the police needed to be so heavily armed. I suppose it's one of them things you don't think about if it's normal to you. But if police here were doing such a thing I imagine people would be either terrified the governments officials were (literally) enforcing a police state and would worry about freedom. Or if it was justified we'd probably expect that that means that anarchy has broken out or something. That's why I would find it scary. I wouldn't like to think that police needed weapons which I think of as something only carried by soldiers. Not sure if that makes sense. anyway.
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@Roddy556 I don't know any police here who carry rifles. I know some special units have semi automatic weapons. Mp5s or something that looks like them. But I believe only for guarding nuclear sites and political figures. My local police definitely don't have them. The idea of being a long way from help makes sense. Do the police in cities then? It's fascinating how different the two countries are.
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@Roddy556 London as I'm sure you'll agree if you've travelled England (much less the rest of the UK) is very different. Yes there are more armed officers. But they are very much in the minority of the force, and you'll generally only see them either around tourist areas or the seats of government. Which is a result of terrorism sadly. In England that's not London you'll not see a armed officer at all. Seeing a handgun on an officer is something that makes people stop and stare and it's a mega minority of officers. Seeing one with a carbine rifle I just can't imagine. Hell. If we need a specialist tactical armed forces we don't have anything like SWAT. We call the army who call the SAS 😂 (genuinely, the Iranian embassy in 1980 is probably the obvious example, others are hard to think of). Anyway, I wish my cousins in the USA and Canada who serve as police. And I hope they never need guns at all. Let alone rifles.
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@Roddy556 as a side note, I just had a quick look. 4% of police in the UK are allowed to carry a firearm (that's any kind of firearm). They are officers in charge of protecting nuclear power plants and nuclear sites in general, the police who protect politicians and the royal family and (sadly) a higher percentage of officers who serve in Belfast. The final small number are officers who protect airports (major ones I mean). So I suppose it would make sense that a tourist would think we have a lot more armed police here than we actually have.
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@oldesertguy9616 that's one of the best comments I've read on YouTube... I tend to ask odd questions on here because I don't use social media and that's the exact sort of story I love to read! I fully believe that was the case. I actually own two 1980s car myself (a ford escort and a nissan laurel). The laurel was considered a massive prestige car for its time. Both are tiny by modern standards and a good friend of mine (who happened to get me into shooting hence my love of forgotten weapons) owns an imported Lincoln which is from the early 90s. Is very very cool and very very VERY big. As in it's longer than our modern parking spaces today. Obviously that's a case of the types of roads we have. You should see some of the roads in France and Italy, no wonder they love even smaller cars there! Thanks for your reply. Not sure if your still an officer or have moved on. But I applaud your civic duty and I'm really glad for your comments (original one and the one I'm replying to). Merry Christmas from NE England.
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