Why no Cannons on Police Helicopters?

"tim gueguen" wrote in message news:PCAic.247951$oR5.203713@pd7tw3no...
"Evan Brennan" wrote in message
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"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message
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Most criminals know that shooting cops is a really BAD idea.

Yet around 150 are killed and 230 injured in the US every year and US
cops
are armed while British police typically are not.

I prefer things our way.


Your way didn't work too well in Northern Ireland.

You mean that place they sent the Army into.


Good point. The US Army certainly does not patrol my neighborhood,
city or state. No need to.

On some days (when they please the English) Northern Irelanders are
referred to as "British". On other days, it is generally considered a
crime to be Irish.


You know, those folks with really cool guns. The Royal Ulster Constabulary
made considerable use of firearms as well.


As did the Loyalist guerrillas, who greatly outnumbered their
adversaries from IRA.