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Bill: Safe Police Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Kirlawa Green 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: May 2074
Description[?]:
| "41.05% Police officers may only carry non-lethal weapons." from the most recent Kirlawan poll: the proposal with most of the votes... |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The weapons used by police forces.
Old value:: Police officers carry standard firearms.
Current: Police officers may only carry standard firearms apart from specially trained firearms units.
Proposed: Police officers may only carry non-lethal weapons.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:43:47, June 28, 2005 CET | From | Kirlawa Green Party | To | Debating the Safe Police Act |
| Message | No need to think the police won't have any defence: think about electrical stun guns, rubber bullets that don't kill, tear gas,... |
| Date | 22:25:25, June 28, 2005 CET | From |  Theofascist Party | To | Debating the Safe Police Act |
| Message | But: "39.60% Police officers carry military-grade equipment." A negligible difference. About 40% wants the police to carry lesser weapons; about 40% wants the police to carry bigger weapons. There's no pleasing this lot. I say we take the middle road and stick with the current law that police officers carry standard firearms. |
| Date | 23:06:31, June 28, 2005 CET | From | Kirlawa Green Party | To | Debating the Safe Police Act |
| Message | I still think we should consider non-lethal weapons... |
| Date | 11:35:54, June 29, 2005 CET | From | Kirlawan Republican Alliance | To | Debating the Safe Police Act |
| Message | What happens when we have a criminal? Use tazers (which are notoriously ineffective; a guy in Los Angeles got riddled with 129 of them, and he died not from the tazers but from the holes) and pray that they just go "Okay, you shot me. Since this is like a game for five-year-olds, I give up, even though I'm perfectly fine."?? Get real. |
| Date | 11:45:43, June 29, 2005 CET | From | Conservative Party | To | Debating the Safe Police Act |
| Message | God, no to this proposal and NO to the nanny state. |
| Date | 13:58:49, June 29, 2005 CET | From | Free Liberal Party of Kirlawa | To | Debating the Safe Police Act |
| Message | I used to work in the law enforcement equipment business. Having seen the ineffectiveness of stun guns first hand, there is *no way* I could ever support this. Especially since it does nothing to keep criminals from carrying lethal weaponry. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 107 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 174 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 19 |
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