Re:You live in a police state: Rejoice! (Score 1)

It seems she was shot as she arrived at the scene and the other policewoman was shot as she tried to help her fallen colleague, so arming them wouldn't have helped, she was shot possibly before she knew what was happening. As a resident of Bradford I would much prefer the police to be unarmed as a majority, as all the statistics I have seen towards american police being armed doesn't fill me with confidence. If the police had been armed there would probably have been several dead or injured, the police, the criminals, any passers by, the people in the travel centre that was being robbed.