World of Redboy wrote:
Maybe if the scum weren't rioting burning building's and people's homes down then the subject of Baton rounds wouldn't come into the equation. The police should have used water cannons on them at the very least.
What difference would a baton round make to stopping someone burning a building down or rioting?
If the police are close enough to accurately fire baton rounds then they're close enough to arrest the arsonist/rioter.
Plus the debate was about whether use of baton rounds would have been a deterrent to and stopped the "Riots" earlier this year. Considering the vast majority of people on the streets at the time were not doing anything close to rioting or arson it seems a bit daft to restrict the scenarios to only those situations. As mentioned before the Police have authorisation and equipment already to stop those kind of things. Plus no amount of baton rounds or water cannon can stop a crime the police don't know is taking place or make up for a lack of police deployed to the streets.
