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Bill: Police Protection Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Imperial Hobrazian Front
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: December 2169
Description[?]:
| SEEING as firearms are now legal in the Republic, it would be irresponsible of us not to afford police officers the same right. This bill will allow an officer of the law to carry one standard firearm and two clips of extra ammunition. Semi-automatic and automatic weapons are not allowed, except for specially-trained SWAT units. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The weapons used by police forces.
Old value:: Police officers may only carry non-lethal weapons apart from specially trained firearms units.
Current: Police officers carry military-grade equipment.
Proposed: Police officers may only carry standard firearms apart from specially trained firearms units.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:24:49, January 08, 2006 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Police Protection Act |
| Message | No, purely because we have every intention of removing firearms from public use. We will not have an arms race between the public and the police. |
| Date | 22:28:46, January 08, 2006 CET | From | National Imperial Hobrazian Front | To | Debating the Police Protection Act |
| Message | Okay, until you remove firearms from the Republic, you are putting police in grave danger. Hope you can sleep at night. |
| Date | 22:34:29, January 08, 2006 CET | From | United Blobs | To | Debating the Police Protection Act |
| Message | OOC - In Britain we have this situation and I have no problems with sleeping at night. |
| Date | 22:43:01, January 08, 2006 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Police Protection Act |
| Message | Very well thanks, you? |
| Date | 23:42:01, January 08, 2006 CET | From | National Imperial Hobrazian Front | To | Debating the Police Protection Act |
| Message | OOC- That's because Britons aren't very violent. Here in the States I sleep well at night because I have a shotgun near me. |
| Date | 02:23:06, January 09, 2006 CET | From | Deltarian Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Police Protection Act |
| Message | I say we should call martial law until firearms are illegal to the public, that way we can bypass the problem of arming the police as the military are already armed |
| Date | 16:57:42, January 09, 2006 CET | From | National Imperial Hobrazian Front | To | Debating the Police Protection Act |
| Message | @TP: I hope that was supposed to be a joke. |
| Date | 11:46:31, January 10, 2006 CET | From |  Liberal-Progressive Union | To | Debating the Police Protection Act |
| Message | I'll support, but the small number of private gun owners that exist in Hobrazia are not the major source of crime. The plan to eliminate all firearms from society is not a reasonable goal, and it is also a dangerous increase in the governments power. |
| Date | 18:09:22, January 10, 2006 CET | From | National Imperial Hobrazian Front | To | Debating the Police Protection Act |
| Message | @L-PU- Agreed. |
| Date | 23:42:24, January 10, 2006 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Police Protection Act |
| Message | Small number of gun owners? We have no records of any numbers of gun owners. For all we know every citizne of this Country owns multiple guns, we have no evidence against. "The plan to eliminate all firearms from society is not a reasonable goal, and it is also a dangerous increase in the governments power." - It is a very reasonable goal. The removal of firearms reduces the risk to public safety. The current laws on firearms ownership, as well as this law to increase police firearm usage, merely enforces the risks to the public as they are forced to arm themselves against "the other guy" who could be holding a gun, somthing that until recently was unlikely. We have taken, and are taking ever more, steps toward gun competition within this Country as everyone tries to get bigger and bigger guns. If the guy down the street has a gun, you obviously need a gun to protect yourself from them. If the police feel the need to carry guns at all times, there must be a great threat, so you must carry a gun for protection. We used to have a country where people could trust each other, we now have a Country where suspicion of others will continue to grow and we become ever more insular. Why be afraid of other Countries harming us, we're doing a pretty good job ourselves. |
| Date | 14:40:27, January 11, 2006 CET | From | Deltarian Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Police Protection Act |
| Message | Was a half joke CSP lol. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 250 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 150 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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