Reply #100: so you're saying they chased him down and shot him

[sweetheart]

and that's that, a pre-emptive death penalty if you will... for working
illegally perhaps?

Honestly, i can't fault the police in london for their job. London is
a very very international city, with many races and languages... and to
be a police officer is to have to deal with all these disparate
communities and their eccentricities.

Here's the way i deal with it. I don't go to london. I don't want to
be shot, so i stay in scotland, where the probabilities of summary
execution are lower. I won't apologize for the police actions, nor will
i condemn them. This same situation is happening 1000 times over in
iraq and nobody is making such a fuss. American soldiers kill people
with impunity for looking the wrong way, and this to defend the very
ideals that they claim to be defending on the tube.

Bottom line, i still don't think police should carry guns. They are
much more likely to be able to disarm a threat when they themselves
are disarmed.