Escalation innit?  The more heavily armed the police are, the more guns the criminals will carry.

Tinribz, it’s not my opinion. Have another read.

Surely they could build a tranquiliser gun which fires a dart instead of a bullet . Works on big game in Africa, so why not in town centers where machette  weilding nut jobs in motorcycle helmets feel thay are above the law.

I dont know, but would a taser work through many layers of outer clothing alot of moped crims seem to wear , also the distance for deployment has to be alot nearer than a dart in a rifle.

Even if you miss , its significantlty less likely to injure / kill a passer by , although everyone ( in the vids online ) retreats to a safe distance anyway. It has to be safer than a bullet doing 9000ft per second and going through and through .

I think the public might be surprised by the number of ARV teams that are / were( pre – cuts) available to the Met , my friend used to crew one , an unmarked Volvo V70 . I cant ask him directly anymore unfortunaly.

chewkw still getting a stiffy over guns.

<p>I’m for it.</p><p></p><p>Of course I actually read the article and know what it is I’m being asked. The majority don’t seem to have and are answering a question nobody asked.</p>

Surely they could build a tranquiliser gun which fires a dart instead of a bullet

Several problems.

Its likely to take some time to take effect (see the snow leopard story recently).

Need to get the dose right. Too much and they are dead too little and see the first problem.

Drugs often need careful treatment eg keeping refrigerated and so on.

Risk of hitting something important.

Yes and I consent to arming Dark Justice and Authorising them to execute the kiddy fiddlers in public on camera

Just to clarify, the story in the telegraph is about allowing already trained firearms officers to deploy on foot patrol with their longarms.

I always thought it was a figure of speech.

I dont know, but would a taser work through many layers of outer clothing alot of moped crims seem to wear , also the distance for deployment has to be alot nearer than a dart in a rifle.

This variant of the post specifically prohibits mention of mopeds.

I’m voting for vehicle mounted guns, kills (maybe) two birds with one stone, moped riders (knock off), violent criminals with weapons (shoot).