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Bill: Protection from Police Bill, 2089
Details
Submitted by[?]: Social Dynamist Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: March 2091
Description[?]:
| Too many massacres have now been caused by overarmed police using weapons of mass killing where simple handguns would have easily been sufficient. This bill would arm police with the weapons necessary to quell violence, rather than exacerbate it. Police may, at their discretion, use weapons which would not otherwise be classed as 'standard' with greater range, insofar as accuracy and discernment are not compensated. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The weapons used by police forces.
Old value:: Police officers carry military-grade equipment.
Current: Police officers may only carry standard firearms apart from specially trained firearms units.
Proposed: Police officers carry standard firearms.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:27:11, August 02, 2005 CET | From | Social Dynamist Party | To | Debating the Protection from Police Bill, 2089 |
| Message | Based on past voting trends, this should pass. |
| Date | 01:19:39, August 02, 2005 CET | From | Patriot Party | To | Debating the Protection from Police Bill, 2089 |
| Message | Opposed as usual. |
| Date | 19:37:54, August 04, 2005 CET | From | Social Dynamist Party | To | Debating the Protection from Police Bill, 2089 |
| Message | Since no-one wants to debate, to the vote. |
| Date | 23:15:27, August 04, 2005 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Protection from Police Bill, 2089 |
| Message | Well I guess we'll have more dead cops. Don't say I didn't warn you because I'm warning now. Our cops will be out gunned by the crooks with the weapons. |
| Date | 03:13:25, August 05, 2005 CET | From | Patriot Party | To | Debating the Protection from Police Bill, 2089 |
| Message | *says a prayer for the cops that are going to get hurt do to this bill* |
| Date | 03:14:08, August 05, 2005 CET | From | Patriot Party | To | Debating the Protection from Police Bill, 2089 |
| Message | It is with regret that I must report that this bill has been passed by the Tribal Council. Let us all pray for the safety of our police force. |
| Date | 20:19:20, August 05, 2005 CET | From | Social Dynamist Party | To | Debating the Protection from Police Bill, 2089 |
| Message | The SDP will, after voting has ended, hold a minute's silence in memory of those innocents killed by overarmed police in the decades of senseless violence propogated by previous governments. |
| Date | 20:55:58, August 05, 2005 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Protection from Police Bill, 2089 |
| Message | The Rightist Party will hold a vigil for all the cops that have died while being out gunned by the criminals after the voting is over. We will campaign hard to get this bill overturned and back to where it should be. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 153 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 119 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 22 |
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