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Originally Posted by Bent Wookie
That's untrue. However, you do realize UK police aren't armed don't you. I would suggest that may have something to do with a lack of shootings of armed assailants and the fact they are put in situations where they may have to disarm someone.
And at least they are "rarely" killed. Thank god. I guess they are doing it right.
You do know who gets called in the UK when there's a guy with a knife don't you? Armed response units.
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While there are armed police available in the UK the reality is it takes probably an hour to get them to the scene, virtually every time the cops in the UK handle armed assailants they do it with no more than a truncheon, they are trained to keep their distance until support arrives, once you get a couple of cops they move in one to each arm and take them down. British cops accept getting hurt as part of the job, not killed mind you, although it does happen, but taking a thump or getting cut is part of the job.
Cops in the US seem congenitally unable to back away from the suspect and wait a few minutes, nine times out of ten if you don't do or say anything to escalate it the anger disapates and things end well, point a gun though and you escalate things.