hunter45
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GWU Police Department is UNARMED? Are they the only police department in the USA that does not carry firearms?
GWU Police Department is UNARMED? Are they the only police department in the USA that does not carry firearms?
I know many campus police that are unarmed ....
I don't know how you can be a sworn police officer and not be allowed to carry on duty. What a joke.
I have never heard of such a thing. All Campus Police Departments in Virginia are armed. I don't know how you can be a sworn police officer and not be allowed to carry on duty. What a joke.
Personally, I'm quite uncomfortable with the armed-cops-to-armed-citizens ratio we've got going on here.
Police have far less need to be armed as a matter of course than do average citizens. Let's face it: police have an infinitesimally small chance of being present while a crime is actually being committed (if for no other reason than criminals expressly avoid committing crimes in the presence of police).
And even when they respond, the odds are good they'll just wait until the action's over in the name of "officer safety", which is of course far more important than the public safety they putatively exist to protect.
This notion that armed police are in any way an efficacious, reasonable, or necessary response to school shootings is a product of, well, public schools (the primary source of the hero-worship directed at the entire profession of Law Enfarcement). It sure ain't a product of logic.
<grumble>
Except for Marshaul, I wouldn't need the on-line dictionary links in my favorites folder.
ETA: AHA! Now, I got him! Putative means assumed to exist. Thus, he's got a redundancy in his sentence. He's essentially saying police assumed to exist exist to protect. Heh, heh, heh.
putative |ˈpyo͞otətiv|
adjective [ attrib. ]
generally considered or reputed to be: the putative father of a boy of two.
DERIVATIVES
putatively adverb
ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French putatif, -ive or late Latin putativus, from Latin putat- ‘thought,’ from the verb putare .
Well think about this, it's only been maybe 5 to 7 years ago that the police officers at the Veterans Administration Medical Centers were allowed to carry firearms. Prior to that is was mace and a baton.
Now think about the people they could run into and the training these people may have recieved with firearms and explosives.\
There were several VA Police who were killed in the line of duty. Many were shot and all they could do is throw stuff.
Kinda miss the Mayberry days when Andy was an unarmed sheriff and Barny would carry a pistol (unloaded) with one round in his shirt pocket.....
a lot of european police dont carry firearms either.
That was make believe. The deputies and sheriff in Mt. Airy have always been armed with loaded guns.
Even Britain is arming their police, eventually they all will be armed. It is the trend of the world, disarm citizens, heavily arm the government agents.
GWU Police Department is UNARMED? Are they the only police department in the USA that does not carry firearms?
I know many campus police that are unarmed ....
In fact DC police shouldn't need to carry firearms either.