Thread: HDPA does indeed lie about firearms

Originally Posted by Maca49

What's the point? A better way than giving a lot of non licenced, poorly trained police officers the right to carry, would be to let them have the teeth to do their job properly now. Imagine the self harm if you armed them! It's bad enough now and many police want nothing to do with firearms. Just because the REST of the world is armed doesn't mean we HAVE to follow

Non licenced? What does that have to do with anything? I didn't think cops needed a licence for doing cop stuff at work.
The army don't need licences either.

While googling Greg O'Conner I found some results of a survey done recently that showed 72% of cops in NZ wanted to carry firearms full time. So there must be plenty who want them when they need them, but not carry full time so the 'many' that want 'nothing to do with firearms' as you claim, can't be that many.

I think most squad cars carry guns already now. The only difference would be cops having them on their hips so they can use them immediately if needed, instead of having them in the boot of the car too far away to be of use if surprised by an armed felon.