Seems like 'we' might start shooting people? : Tue Dec 20, 2011 12:42 pm  

Not just with rubber bullets (they're for children). As economies turn down democracies always get tough: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... mends.html

Not just with rubber bullets (they're for children). As economies turn down democracies always get tough: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... mends.html

Re: Seems like 'we' might start shooting people? : Tue Dec 20, 2011 12:59 pm  

DAILY MAIL ATTEMPTS TO CAUSE OUTRAGE WITH SPECULATIVE/ FABRICATED STORY.

Stop the presses!

Re: Seems like 'we' might start shooting people? : Tue Dec 20, 2011 1:01 pm  

Dally wrote: Not just with rubber bullets (they're for children). As economies turn down democracies always get tough: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... mends.html For someone who "doesn't read the Daily Mail", you don't half post a lot of guff on here linking to their site.

Dally wrote: Not just with rubber bullets (they're for children). As economies turn down democracies always get tough: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... mends.html For someone who "doesn't read the Daily Mail", you don't half post a lot of guff on here linking to their site.

Re: Seems like 'we' might start shooting people? : Tue Dec 20, 2011 1:16 pm  

I haven't even got a gun.

Re: Seems like 'we' might start shooting people? : Tue Dec 20, 2011 1:19 pm  

Matt23 wrote: DAILY MAIL ATTEMPTS TO CAUSE OUTRAGE WITH SPECULATIVE/ FABRICATED STORY. Stop the presses! They're all at it: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... finds.html

Matt23 wrote: DAILY MAIL ATTEMPTS TO CAUSE OUTRAGE WITH SPECULATIVE/ FABRICATED STORY. Stop the presses! They're all at it: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... finds.html

Re: Seems like 'we' might start shooting people? : Tue Dec 20, 2011 1:32 pm  

Have you got a gun Dally?

Bet you have.

Re: Seems like 'we' might start shooting people? : Tue Dec 20, 2011 1:47 pm  

Armed police in "in certain circumstances, we may actually fire " shock.

Re: Seems like 'we' might start shooting people? : Tue Dec 20, 2011 2:40 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

Armed police in "in certain circumstances, we already do fire " shock.

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Re: Seems like 'we' might start shooting people? : Tue Dec 20, 2011 3:27 pm  

A few newspapers have run with this, they are obviously trying to get attention from people who will think it is a recommendation that police will open fire on peaceful protestors.

The recommendation here is that when people are burning down businesses that have a residential property attached to them (eg a newsagents/corner shop where the family live above) then due to the likelihood of this trapping people in the property above and having to either jump out of a window or burn to death then the police reserve the right to use lethal force.

Sounds reasonable to me, it's hardly a restraint on human rights to take away peoples rights to set fire to someone's house.

Re: Seems like 'we' might start shooting people? : Tue Dec 20, 2011 4:41 pm  

I would imagine the police already have the authority and the right to do such a thing anyway.
The problem with it is, as with the idiots suggesting water cannon and rubber bullets would have stopped the riots earlier this year, that a police presence is necessary where these crimes are taking place.

The problem with the police response to the riots wasn't a lack of equipment or wrong tactics. It was a lack of police on the streets.