In a word…No! The question that the article does not ask is why are ANY British police officers carrying guns now. Fifty years ago almost no British police officers carried guns routinely. Now some 7000 out of 130,000 British police officers are routinely armed. What changed? Two things for certain: the death penalty for killing a policeman was repealed and Great Britain (UK) became more multicultural and as a consequence its crime rates sky rocketed. More British police carry guns now than in the past because Great Britain has more violent crime (robbery, murder, rape, assault) than in the past and more criminals willing to assault and /or murder police. More non-violent crime (burglaries, car thefts, etc.) than in the past as well. It has become well know by now that much crime in Great Britain goes unreported and that the authorities under record incidents of crime, such that crime rates in Britain are even worse than officially reported.
The countries where the police go unarmed invariably have homogenous non-multicultural populations and low crime rates. Comparing the USA to Great Britain is an apples to oranges comparison because Great Britain is a long established European country with an ethnically homogenous population, whereas the USA is a recently established country, a former European colony, and has an ethnically diverse population. It would be much more valid to compare Great Britain to Switzerland (another long established European, country) and to compare the USA to Brazil, another former European colony. When making such a comparison one sees then that the countries with restrictive gun laws actually have more crime and violence than the similar countries that do not have restrictive gun laws.
FYI: in Northern Ireland, all police officers carry firearms.
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