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Bill: Let's face the facts
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberty Party
Status[?]: defeated
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: November 2447
Description[?]:
| Police have an increasingly difficult job in today's society. As the government's only way of keeping their monopoly on the legal use of force against private individuals is the boys in blue (or whatever the police dress in these days) (insert political correctness: boys and girls in blue....), the Liberty Party believes that the instrument the state uses to protect our rights and fight those who seek to take them away for their own benefit should be armed to cope with today's weapons available, working in unison with responsible, armed population. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The weapons used by police forces.
Old value:: Police officers may only carry standard firearms apart from specially trained firearms units.
Current: Police officers may only carry standard firearms apart from specially trained firearms units.
Proposed: Police officers carry military-grade equipment.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:26:09, August 25, 2007 CET | From |  Democratic Trade Unionist Party | To | Debating the Let's face the facts |
| Message | Policemen and women do not need high-powered rifles. Their job is to maintain the peace, and arrest those who attempt to break the law so that they may face trial. High-powered weaponry is not often noted for its ability to incapicitate rather than kill. Batons, Tear Gas, tasers and perhaps and armed response unit is sufficient for the fufillment of these duties |
| Date | 09:52:58, August 25, 2007 CET | From | Liberty Party | To | Debating the Let's face the facts |
| Message | I'd like to believe that too. But try telling that to the law abiding citizen on the street. Try telling that to the police. Your policy may have worked in the 1950s, but, sadly, I fear it's just not effective enough nowadays. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 44 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 227 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 130 |
| Random fact: Particracy does not allow real-life fictional references (eg. Gandalf, Harry Potter, Luke Skywalker). |
| Random quote: "Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning?" - George W. Bush |