Thread: Why frontline cops should be armed

Originally Posted by 199p

My thinking is that if the whole country get to a point where the police need to carry firearms at all times to deal with the average public then the war is already lost and we need to re thing the laws.

For example if the cop who sits out on state the highway camping the stop sign, cheeking everyones speed using his radar gun needs to carry a firearm on his hip then they have lost,
I have no problem at all with them " tooling up " when required.
So long as "when required" isn't when on duty.

Fair enough comment. But criminals drive and carry weapons and don't like been stopped. If the police don't have guns on them when they need it then they are in serious shit.

For example, recently in America that cop got shot sitting in his car, he got out and shot the offender and now he's in custody. If he had the gun in a lock box, the criminal would have stood there till the cop was dead. He only ran cause they are armed and can defend themselves.

I agree it will be a sad day when police are routinely armed, but it will happen. Society is causing that.

Police just have to adapt, as will everyone else.