To Protect and To Serve?

Howdy peeps!!! Well here's my view of question 7) If the Police are really meant to Protect and to serve the People, why do they even carry Guns?

We know that in England Police officers do not carry firearms unless is the special units and or ranks of sargeants and above that can carry firearms, the strange thing is that the cases of firearms involved in England are far lower than its counterpart the US. Most british agree that even in cases where police officers do get killed in the line of duty its often rare situations and also most police officers do not want to carry a firearm. Then there is the public, they believe that having armed officers will create a psychological feeling of oppression and arming and training the police force will cause a great increment in public spending, thus creating more taxes to the already high rates the British pay. So the question here is why in the US the police officers carry guns?   simple answer...America’s gun problem!!! most civilians in the US have guns so the police treat every single call as if the citizen is possibly armed, “It’s Schrödinger’s gun: It’s always there, but it’s not there until you see it,” Michael Sierra-Arévalo, a sociologist at the University of Texas stated.

So what can be done? Firstly, fix the gun control issue, then reform the police. That could be as it seems the only way to fix the issue of armed police officers in the US. As the British goes, seems their armed forces are exclusively for well trained and need to use situations and statistically speaking they are doing good.

Be well my friends!!!

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Your friendly cryptor, AndyHuerta.