Well Jean Charles de Menezes was killed by MI5 not the met but anyway
It's not turning the UK in the USA with armed police as standard.
They're talking about changing the ammunition that the police marksman already have.
Shoot to wound is fiction, you cannot safely shoot someone.
This is why there is so much research into "less than lethal" options.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Thu 12 May 2011, 9:41,
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No the UK isnt the USA (yet) we have had armed police for many years now.
How is hollow point 'less than lethal'?
Shoot to wound would be nice, but then why have tazers? Just bin them and go for the glory shot
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Er......
I wasn't saying hollow points weren't lethal.
I was saying that because you cannot shoot to wound forces around the world have been experimenting with what they term "less than lethal" responses.
We're talking about projectiles (bags, batons, rubber balls etc), gases, quick set foam (AKA Riot Foam from 2000ad) and various ways of pumping high voltage into the human body.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Thu 12 May 2011, 11:34,
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So along with high staffing numbers, "beanbag" rounds, batons, tasers,'choke and suppression' techniques, body armour, national CCTV system, automatic weaponry,foam, tear gas, pepper spray, plastic bullets, air support (I'd better put as in 'surveillance', as you'll probably think I mean Hellfire missile support)
You still think Hollow point is required? Oh, lets do grenades next, or maybe tactical low radius atomic weaponry?
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