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.
Ok, lets go through these one by one:
1) they want to turn all the poor people in africa to consumers that buy coca-cola
Britain wants to change this, that is the open market thing, and is one of the reasons africa looses so much money, we are trying to make it fair trade, where we can, and will, buy african goods. Britains will loose some money (From lower prices due to higher availability) but we can cope
2) they want to avoid laws against poluting the environment because they will lose money
We will loose money with the fair trade, were still pushing for it, and one of the problems is due to the lack of availability of non-oil based cars, and the american 'need' for huge cars
3) they're just interested in how they're gonna get richer and that's just it. We are interested in becoming richer, but we are finally realising, if we help africa, africa may later in time, help us -- We have good reason to believe he was stabbed. There was a sharp object sticking out of his chest Generated by SlashdotRndSig via GreaseMonkey
Oh, did I mention oil tends to be a politically destabilizing influence?
Yes! somebody finally realises what Ive been saying all these years (albeit offline)
Oil is the reason for wars, not evil dictators. Although they are kind of a problem.
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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.
Ok, lets go through these one by one:
1) they want to turn all the poor people in africa to consumers that buy coca-cola
Britain wants to change this, that is the open market thing, and is one of the reasons africa looses so much money, we are trying to make it fair trade, where we can, and will, buy african goods. Britains will loose some money (From lower prices due to higher availability) but we can cope
2) they want to avoid laws against poluting the environment because they will lose money
We will loose money with the fair trade, were still pushing for it, and one of the problems is due to the lack of availability of non-oil based cars, and the american 'need' for huge cars
3) they're just interested in how they're gonna get richer and that's just it.
We are interested in becoming richer, but we are finally realising, if we help africa, africa may later in time, help us
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We have good reason to believe he was stabbed. There was a sharp object sticking out of his chest
Generated by SlashdotRndSig via GreaseMonkey
Oh, did I mention oil tends to be a politically destabilizing influence?
Yes! somebody finally realises what Ive been saying all these years (albeit offline) Oil is the reason for wars, not evil dictators. Although they are kind of a problem.