Belly,

One of your more well thought out posts.

A translation would help though.

Teddy bears?
Neither are NRL and AFL forwards. Real men shoot it out, the State of Origin needs machine-gunners and grenade chuckers. With beer slabs to winners handed out by Police commissioners.

Dear Is Mise,

You really couldn't help yourself could you. Where did I say anything about the arming or otherwise of the police in any country?

All I was doing was illustrating that non-lethal forms of dealing with often mentally ill, knife wielding, offenders have been adopted with demonstrable success in other countries and then making the point that they should be examined for our country. Our own police accept that nearly 50% of their confrontations with those who threaten police with knives are mentally ill at the time.

Now to your wet dream. You might feel a mighty (sorry make that little) throbbing between your legs at the thought of mostly unarmed policing in the UK being a thing of the past. But then you would be quite happy seeing terrorists erode what had been a way of life for the Brits, where their average bobby did not carry a lethal weapon with them doing general policing. Well I'm not. It would be another victory for the terrorist but one I now know would see you applauding with gusto.

What if police were to receive a broader training?

They could still be armed, but instead of being
taught to just target the head or the chest - they
were taught to target other "non-lethal" parts of
the body to stop an assailant, for example, the legs,
or arms? Thus not killing the perpetrators but simply
wounding them and stopping them in their tracks.

Foxy,

And if the perp has a gun?
Shooting to wound is all very well in the movies, but doesn't work out too well in real life.

Steele,

People who attack with knives wish to kill, the person attacked, police or civilian, should not have to make a judgement as to the mental health or intentions of the attacker, preserving one's own life takes priority.

Fortunately, the Bourke St murderer was not adept with the knife so only one was killed and two injured.

Isn't it wonderful, our brave Steely & Paul are happy to play hero with some cops life, in favour of some garbage that is not worth saving.

Easy for these clowns to be brave, when safely far away from danger.

I'd like to see the whites of their eyes if personally responsible for implementing the rubbish they want a cop to do for them. It w3ould be hard though. All we would see would be their tail between their legs from behind as they fled. All talk with no responsibility, no wonder they make me sick.