Rath on 01 October 2009
| TheRealMafoo said: So let me get this right... if guns don't make you safer, you're saying that we can take all the guns away from cops, and they can do there job equally effective with no additional risk to there safety? |
You need a safe country with very little gun crime before that step can be taken. But yes, in some societies police are more effective without weapons.
This is what the NZ police commissioner has to say on the issue.
http://www.police.govt.nz/blog/2009/07/02/police-routinely-unarmed-my-watch/15516
