I'd *much* rather it didn't take "a specialised team of gun-trained officers".
You'd rather the quality of gun training and expertise in the rarer cases where guns are needed was lower?
Admittedly there are countries where the police carry handguns even though ordinary people aren't allowed them, but personally I find that a little bit scary.
Now, trigger-happy cops worry me much more than a citizen trying to let law enforcement professionals know that he's legally carrying a firearm.
If handguns were illegal there'd be less need for the police to carry guns in the first place. A knife-proof vest and a nightstick will protect police from knives a lot better than a gun will (what with the gun being a long range weapon).
They're supposed to be trained to know better.
Nobody's perfect. You're better off not having guns around. That way whenever a handgun shows up you can be almost certain it's illegal. (Rifle's and the like will require a little more inquiry, but at least they aren't so easily hidden and the fact that you are in a rural area where people might want to hunt wildlife and will have permits to do so will make things rather easier.)
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Date: 2011-07-23 12:10 pm (UTC)You'd rather the quality of gun training and expertise in the rarer cases where guns are needed was lower?
Admittedly there are countries where the police carry handguns even though ordinary people aren't allowed them, but personally I find that a little bit scary.
Now, trigger-happy cops worry me much more than a citizen trying to let law enforcement professionals know that he's legally carrying a firearm.
If handguns were illegal there'd be less need for the police to carry guns in the first place. A knife-proof vest and a nightstick will protect police from knives a lot better than a gun will (what with the gun being a long range weapon).
They're supposed to be trained to know better.
Nobody's perfect. You're better off not having guns around. That way whenever a handgun shows up you can be almost certain it's illegal. (Rifle's and the like will require a little more inquiry, but at least they aren't so easily hidden and the fact that you are in a rural area where people might want to hunt wildlife and will have permits to do so will make things rather easier.)