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Yep, you call it, and I say that's all that's been added to this thread. Which is bullshit.

I think this thread is done and dusted.
I really don't think anyone can add any more to this.
If they arm, then they will and we will have no say. If they don't, then Happy Days.

Like...

Fair enough comment. But criminals drive and carry weapons and don't like been stopped. If the police don't have guns on them when they need it then they are in serious shit.

For example,...

There is no money in the budget to buy all the guns at once.
I believe they are buying them as they go and are building numbers gradually rather than all at once.

I agree tussock.
I don't think anyone could add anything else to this thread which hasn't been covered already.

I think we have pretty much covered everything and we are just going over the same points over and over.

Currently the Police don't carry guns but have ready access to them. They routinely carry...

That's because you chose not to. You wont accept anyone elses opinion or view which doesn't align with your own.
I don't want this to get into a personal attack thing, but it appears that you are...

Yep. Pretty much.
And no one here will have any say on the outcome.

Only time will tell.

Who are they. I only thought the police enforced the law.

Why would anyone need to have the need for concealed carry in NZ. NZ is a safe place to live.

People here say the shootings would increase if the police were armed, what do you think would happen...

I think if Police were armed it would be for self defence but it would be mainly to have the tools with them when needing to protect others when going to jobs. The delay in going back to get firearms...

Everyone can and has said their point of view on this, but unfortunately it won't mean a pinch of shit when it comes to the decision been made.

They said the police would not routinely carry...

Maybe you would take it off for protests, large demonstrations and the like.

And are you speaking from your personal experience in the police about it not been happy days or from what you see on...

It's the number of staff getting assaulted and threatened with weapons, knives and guns.

It's not happy days out there anymore.

And if the taser fails, which it probably would, then they are dead with one strike to the head.

In that event, the cop returned to the Police station (they didn't have them in the cars then) and got a Glock from there and then went back to where Steven Wallace was and confronted him.
Prior to...

Cause getting hit in the head can kill you.
Spray doesn't always work and can take a few seconds to kick in to work.
Tasers work half the time.

Im sure if you were confronted with someone with...

No. The compressed air rifles like that one used to kill him, fires at the same speed or similar to a 22. Hence why you now need a firearms licence to own one.

Guns account for bugger all deaths...

Depends on the air rifle. Don Wilkinson was killed with an air rifle. So not so low powered.

But the media has never been good at identifying firearms. We all know that. They can never be relied upon to tell the accurate truth about anything.

It will only be a matter of time.