Well when they run out of enemies to use against the public, e.g. ISIS, then what? Attack Russia I suppose and start using that excuse. Pretty sick of it now. They do these polls as well, asking if people feel comfortable seeing armed police? Who the fukc feels comfortable with a pair of plonks sauntering about with semi-autos? I don't think the plod force realise just how suspicious the public are of the whole thing. They've never stopped a terrorist in their life, any of these coppers, it's all for show. If it's about emergency response they could just as easily have coppers on standby with conceal and carry.
I also respect the US constitution and believe that a citizen has a right to bare arms for their own protection and to fight against government tyranny which is what the founding father's deliberately built into their constitution; they predicted one day the government would turn tyrannical and it slowly has gone that way with each passing day. I wouldn't want to see the UK go the same way but most definitely no to plods having guns, and furthermore no to them having tasers which is the subject of this thread. Most plod don't have the intelligence to police a public toilet let alone carry assault weapons, very dangerous and no not acceptable. Perhaps one day when the government isn't so protective of the corporations maybe then the police will go back to protecting and serving the public like they once did before. At the moment it feels the police 'force' is 'enforcing', and it certainly ain't the public interest. Having said all that it's a sh1t job, but they could help themselves more by actually turning around to their superiors and saying ''no we don't think we should all have tasers, or firearms''. At the moment most are quite happy to jog along to their orders, which is harming their image. And fukc me their public image couldn't get any lower, could it?
Look at all the public order offences and laws in the UK. It's been eating into public freedom for a LONG time now, all under the guise of political correctness and terrorism. Most people I think see the plod as a parasite. They expect to be preyed on with all these fines and charges that basically just bring business to the court, fukc whether someone is guilty or not.