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   From: anfi@wp.eu   
      
   GB  wrote:   
   > Should someone in PC Palmer's rather exposed position be armed, though?   
      
   Are you ready and willing to risk disarming in such exposed position?   
      
   The threats are not sufficient to change the long standing policy in one   
   fast move IMHO.  It most likely is sufficient for _steady_ increase of   
   percent of armed policemen/policewomen.  Base target may be to arm most   
   of them in 20 years _if the threat level increases_.   
      
   The tradition of (mostly) unarmed police may stay   
   *BUT* IMHO it is time to make _unhurried_ preparations of the other option.   
      
   --   
   A. Filip   
   "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary   
   safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."   
     -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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