Thread: Why frontline cops should be armed

The way I see it, if you need a gun, you need it now, because not many people that want to kill you will give you the courtesy of going to the car to get them. If you are only half armed you may as well not be. Granted, you could arm up if you got called to a dodgy sounding situation, but if routine turns into a violent assault or a gun fight you're fucked. I think the change will come when or if we have an active shooting scenario occur where responding police are not trained or equipped to stop it. Or they'll just do a gun banning spree and business as usual. Funny how that hasn't resulted in a general disarming of Australian officers. You would think with such stringent and world leading gun control laws, there would be little reason to have front line staff routinely armed.