Thread: Why frontline cops should be armed

Originally Posted by MassiveAttack

Of course the police got called in to deal with him. Nobody else in the country is allowed to carry an effective means of defense and if they used it then it's likely that they would end up on the wrong side of a court case even though their intentions were to defend life and property. Basically what you are advocating is disarming the public and then arming the police more in order to protect a disarmed public.

Exactly, Police get called to deal with it, it's their job, not the average member of the public.

You obviously know nothing of the law and how it is applied, I recommend you don't comment on what you don't know about. Have you ever even read S48 of the Crimes Act? Let alone looked into case law surround possessing offensive weapons?

When and where did I mention, let alone advocate, disarming the public? Stop making up my opinion for me in order to suit your argument, I said nothing of the sort.

I may have used the wrong word when I said satistics. My info came directly from the blokes on the RO course and it wasn't second hand. I don't think they release public stats on police range accidents but if they do let me know where they are. To the best of my knowledge there has been one firearm related injury at a civilian range.

Statistics is a pretty specific word, hard to get that one wrong unintentionally. So the info came straight from civilians that wouldn't have been present at the time of the incidents? But wasn't second hand? I still don't know of any Police related firearm injuries on a range. You can't compare what happens off range, apples with apples.

Here is an article detailing the eight accidential dischanges by police between 2010 and 2013, it doesn't make for great reading.
Police shooting still unresolved a year on | Stuff.co.nz

He was being helped to his feet when a police officer's Bushmaster rifle discharged. Pere spent several weeks in Wellington Hospital recovering.

The officer involved has since returned to work on restricted duties, and was stood down from the armed offenders squad.

That doesn't contain the Chch one so I will see if I can find that.

Another sensationalist news article, much like some parts of your posts, you can't tell me there hasn't been any AD/NDs on civilian ranges? The guy getting shot in the back was tragic and steps have been taken to remedy the cause of that accident.