BREAKING NEWS - TERROR ATTACK outside Parliament

Reebok Trotter wrote:These kind of attacks just give more ammunition to the likes of Donald Trump. RIP to those who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Has Trump sent any condolences at all? He's usually quick enough to leap to Twitter to deliver his rhetoric.

okocha wrote:

Reebok Trotter wrote:These kind of attacks just give more ammunition to the likes of Donald Trump. RIP to those who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Has Trump sent any condolences at all? He's usually quick enough to leap to Twitter to deliver his rhetoric.

No but Number One Son jumped straight onto Twitter last night to try and make political capital out of this tragedy by having a dig at Sadiq Khan:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/22/donald-trump-jr-tweet-london-mayor-sadiq-khan

The apple falls not far from the tree.....

Yes, he did send his condolences. It was mentioned on the TV last night

Yeah, fair does - I retract my statement that he didn't send his condolences because, as Glos says, he did tweet about it last night.

However......would he have worded his tweet the way he did if Theresa had been a Terry instead?

Bit patronising if you ask me.

So we've reached the stage of tweeting condolences. Oh dear.

There is an argument that arming the police encourages criminals to use guns, but in other countries I've lived in where the police are armed the only criminals with guns are the ones who go to war with other gangs or are willing to take on the police - and that happens anyway in the UK.

Having an armed police presence on the streets obviously adds the risk of trigger happy cops, but I do know a police marksman and the training is excellent so I think the risk could be ameliorated as far as possible.

Where the police are routinely armed it definitely gets the police more respect from the general public and minimises a whole range of crimes, so i don't think arming the police would be a completely bad thing - provided it was done properly.

I have an open mind about a general armimg of the police but if they were all armed I doubt that they would all receive the level of training that police marksmen receive. However other European countries seem to manage with armed police forces without them ending up like America.