• DarthBueller@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Seriously. Emulating the USA’s criminal “policies” is stupid, and I live here. Next thing he’s going to suggest all your cops have guns, and then suddenly you’ll have black market firearms everywhere.

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      1 year ago

      If you think that’s even slightly likely to be suggested, you don’t know UK society at all. There’s no gun culture or people arguing for them to be brought back to society at all here.

    • Flax@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      Every police officer in Northern Ireland has firearms and there’s no issue

      • DarthBueller@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Or Tesco can cough up the dough for security guards like they used to, before Tesco made them “redundant” and replaced them with apparently ineffective technology as others have mentioned.