Armed Cops in the UK

14 Dec 08

From a London newspaper, on the subject of armed police officers:

Members of CO19, the armed unit of Scotland Yard, all agree that the days of the unarmed police in the UK are numbered.

"In many areas of London, there is not a 'possibility' that an officer will be confronted by an armed suspect, but a 'probability.'"

Identical to the situation in most American metro areas.

"When I shoot someone, I'm a Cop. When I get shot, I'm a 'Bobby.' English don't like Cops, but love 'Bobbies.'"

Just like the willfully naive in America, who detest heroes, but love victims.

"... most in senior management have tried to pretend we don't exist."

Reminiscent of Jimmy Cirillo's NYPD Tactical Unit and other heroic SWAT units. They love us when we're murdered, but hate us when we do our job. And, the more elegant and professional we are, the more we're hated. Sluttish politicians, who rely upon violent criminals for political support, are particularly venomous in their denigration of tactical teams. They curiously change their tune, of course, when those same officers are tasked to protect them. Imagine that!

In the UK, there is no gun-culture, only gun-ignorance. Adolescent twits there, as here, who know nothing of guns except what they've "learned' from watching the typical sewage emanating from Hollywood, make unenlightened statements like:

"If armed police are so highly trained, and are such expert marksmen, then why are their 'victims' always killed, and never just wounded?"

I suspect their whining will be slightly less shrill when it is their lives that are saved by armed police!

The sinister commingling of immorality with ignorance will bring down any civilization, right readily!

/John