[Darksheare]

I’d have to ask one of our UK posters about the response time for armed bobbies to arrive.
But besides that, they might find this an interesting development.
A formerly rabidly anti-gun author wrote this?
Holy smokes!
Ping to Moose to share with fellow compatriots from his side of the pond.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Our neighbor when we lived in Minnesota was an Englishman. I took him to the gun range and hooked him on pistol shooting. In return, he taught me the rudiments of sailing a small sailboat.

When he returned to the UK, he was forced to store his recently purchased Glock 9 mm at the local police station and was allowed to check it out for practice shooting at the range south of London.

Two years later, the police informed him that his gun had been confiscated.

[jsanders2001]

A Colorado governor realizing legalizing pot was bad?

A former anti-gun crusader realizing that his stance is wrong and wishes guns were now legal because only criminals have guns when they’re outlawed?

Hey that’s a two’fer if you ask me. Maybe people are waking up...but maybe too late.

[moose07]

I can only speak for this town.
Normal Coppers: About 3 minutes, if your lucky.
Armed Plod: If they are in the hive at the next town, About 15 mins.

[moose07]

Okay, read the post now.
There are large sections of the population i wouldn't trust with a blunt knife, let alone a FireArm.
They would have to be reintroduced through the Schools with familiarisation events, the indoctrinated fear is at incredible levels.
Then training by the Military to mentally assess the candidate before a licence is issued.
It would take several generations to Safely arrive at a similar condition as say ,Texas.
Just my 4 pence ha’penny. :)

For the record ,i was a firearm owner. 22,357/38,44/429.

[the scotsman]

Depends. If emergency caller states guns involved, armed units are of course sent, not normal police. If normal police arrive as a routine call and suddenly guns appear, they will back off (a bit), seal exits and routes and call in armed units. Normal police in the UK are now routinely armed with 50000v tasers.

In Lee Rigby’s case (and it looks as if callers DIDNT mention the gun, just that he’d been stabbed), the normal police arrived in 3mins, the armed in 9 minutes, after the former called for armed support.

[vette6387]

“I’d have to ask one of our UK posters about the response time for armed bobbies to arrive.”

So what happens when the unarmed bobby “shows up.” The British cops are just like the French, the do not carry firearms (”it’s so unciviilzed doncha know”).