How to deal with police that carry guns

You don't know what you're talking about.

Handguns are banned in this country for all except the police and military. Rifle clubs exist but you can only use rifles there. Clay pigeon clubs exist but you can only use shotguns. All Handguns are banned. Even people like athletes who use target pistols have to leave the country to practise.

I believe, though, that air pistols are different.

No police in this country are routinely armed. This is a distinction you simply don't understand. Yes, some people are armed, but these are either at specific locations, are armed response or are anti terror.

The Houses of Parliament always has armed police outside, so that argument is entirely bogus, which you'd know if you had an IQ measured in double digits.

Buckingham palace also has armed guards outside all the time. They're called soldiers.


This whole thing is about you allegedly feeling uncomfortable around guns, which makes the idea that you've had 'gun training' even more fanciful.


There is no requirement for all police to be armed. Nobody is calling for it. Nobody wants it. And that includes the police.
There are approximately 6000 armed police in the UK.
There are approximately 130,000 police in the UK.

The suggestion that all police are armed is, therefore, bolleaux.

You have this assumption that firearms officers in units such as so13 and so19 are somehow inadequately trained on how to use firearms or are too irresponsible to use them. What lead you to this conclusion? Any suspect who has warranted the dispatch of a firearms response unit would surely also warrant lethal force? It's not like constables on the beat are just being given firearms like some militia, they're being issued to units where they feel officers are more at risk of being attacked or there's a higher chance that an attack will occur. They have to requalify at least once a year on each weapon anyway so it's not like they don't know how use them. You seem very misinformed about the extent of firearm usage in the police.

The police are regularly armed in Scotland for everyday payrolling on foot. It has been a bone of contention in the national newspapers for over a year. I can provide evidence if you want me to but I really shouldn't have to. I'm sure you can just google it.

As for the club then I guess I must have been brealing the law then without realising it. Just as well an armed cop didn't turn up or someone would be dead. And why would the Labour MSP say they don't agree with it as if its real? Are MSPs also as clueless as you make me out to be?

The police are regularly armed in Scotland for everyday payrolling on foot. It has been a bone of contention in the national newspapers for over a year. I can provide evidence if you want me to but I really shouldn't have to. I'm sure you can just google it.

As for the club then I guess I must have been brealing the law then without realising it. Just as well an armed cop didn't turn up or someone would be dead. And why would the Labour MSP say they don't agree with it as if its real? Are MSPs also as clueless as you make me out to be?

Police will be armed for a reason, it shouldn't be contentious at all. This is simple fearmongering by cretins who have no clue about police armed response.

A handgun would have been illegal if you used it after 1996. If you did, you were breaking the law. Otherwise, this "training" of your will have been roughly 19 years ago. As for "training to wound", you expressed an intention to use the handgun for self defence, implying that this stance of being able to defend yourself would be acceptable yet in this thread you state that police shouldn't have weapons for defence. So you're either lying or being hypocritical.

ahhh another rediculous thread on tsr.

Two bobbies on the beat on the streets of Strathclyde. Want them to visit your kids school?

From an English national newspaper.

There you go then. It was before 1996. Case solved lol

I had no intention to defend myself. Just going through the course as a hobby.

And there's no need to start throwing insults. We were having a reasonably adult conversation until now.

From Police Scotland's very own website:
"Are all Scotland’s police officers now routinely armed?

Absolutely not. There are only 275 highly trained specialist armed response officers, fewer than two per cent of our entire police service."

But I'm sure you know that. After all, that only took a few seconds on Google...


They have changed their policy recently whereby those few officers are seen in the streets more, hence the media coverage, but the idea that all are armed is, like you, simply wrong.

You seriously expect us to believe that you're at least 32, if not older (as there's next to no chance any under 13 would have been allowed to use a handgun)?

You're having a laugh, kid.

What point are you trying to make with this picture? Do they look aggressive, do they look like they will shoot you for no reason? No, they dont. Your posts just make you look like your whining for no reason. Grow up

There you go then. It was before 1996. Case solved lol

I had no intention to defend myself. Just going through the course as a hobby.

And there's no need to start throwing insults. We were having a reasonably adult conversation until now.

I'm probably old enough to be your father so who's the kid, kid?

What point are you trying to make with this picture? Do they look aggressive, do they look like they will shoot you for no reason? No, they dont. Your posts just make you look like your whining for no reason. Grow up

According to another poster which I will quote if I can find it, the police have a right to use lethal force if they feel threatened. As someone who was brought up in a country without guns does that therefor give me the moral right to behave the same?

They always have a reason, like he was threatening me with his back or I didn't know he had a heart condition when I punched him in the back. Or he looked like the other guy so I broke his neck. Or when he said he couldn't breath he was lying thats why he died. Or we were ok to hide the murder weapon we killed him with cause we were under pressure. Or I was right to execute those two civilians for having a noisy car. Etc etc etc etc etc.....

In which case you've got good cause to complain about the government - they've grossly misinformed you about the level of your education.

If I were you - well, if I were you I'd jump off a cliff - but in your position I'd demand that they reimbursed you for any and all costs relating to schooling. You haven't got your money's worth by a long way.