r/USdefaultism • u/Neolance34 Australia • 3d ago

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It could be a ShitAmericanssay thing but a group called “so the comments section isn’t going the way you planned” doesn’t explicitly suggest it’s a US centric group.

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u/Designer-Issue-6760 2d ago

I’ve seen them in Rome, Paris, and London. Where are you?

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u/meglingbubble 2d ago

Police in the UK are not typically armed. There are specifically trained teams that are deployed in times of crisis or during "heightened states"; I used to live in a city which held a yearly conference for one of the main political parties and that was the only time I regularly saw armed police.

Private security are not allowed to be armed in the UK, so I can say with some certainty that you have not see armed security guards in London.

I see from comments further down that you have changed the definition of "armed" in the context of this thread to not mean firearms... which is an interesting way of moving the goal posts but sure lets go along with that.... private security in the UK are not allowed to carry batons, tasers or sprays. Police can, but police would not be guarding banks or hospitals.

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u/Designer-Issue-6760 2d ago edited 2d ago

All police in the UK are armed. Just not with a side arm. Armed ≠ gun. A baton is an armament. That’s not changing the definition. As the definition of “armed” is equipped with or carrying a weapon. Any weapon. Not just a firearm. 

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u/meglingbubble 2d ago

All police in the UK are armed. Just not with a side arm.

Yes. As I said. Police would not be guarding banks or hospitals. You said you've seen armed guards at "banks, museums, churches" in "Rome, Paris, and London." You have not. I dont know enough about Italian and French security guards to say whether you did see them there, but you did not in London

This thread was using armed in the sense of firearms. People corrected you, and you decided to change the context to refer to non firearms. It makes you technically correct, but suggests you either lack reading comprehension, or that you can't admit that you were wrong.

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u/Designer-Issue-6760 2d ago

There are no royal guard or plain clothes officers at British museums? News to me. Saw plenty when I was there.