Thread: Why frontline cops should be armed

Originally Posted by Tussock

Like what Massive Attack said. With New Zealand about to become an extremely poor country, the lack of stability in our future may change a few things.

My thinking is that if the whole country get to a point where the police need to carry firearms at all times to deal with the average public then the war is already lost and we need to re thing the laws.

For example if the cop who sits out on state the highway camping the stop sign, cheeking everyones speed using his radar gun needs to carry a firearm on his hip then they have lost,
I have no problem at all with them " tooling up " when required.
So long as "when required" isn't when on duty.