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Originally Posted by 911-32
Would you believe that the vast majority of UK police are not armed? Why? They don't need to be, because very few criminals are.
Don't get me wrong, I don't suggest the UK approach would work in the US (in fact, I go so far as to say, I have no idea what would work), but importing US values arounds guns and self-defence and the peculiar right to bear arms (peculiar in the sense that no other country I can think of has this right), is arrogant, ignorant and generally unwelcomed. I suspect that is what has bothered our Canadian friends.
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And they are technically armed. But they are armed with a whistle, not a gun.
But the second part is pretty much spot on.