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Advise your friend to watch that program. There is no way that I would ever be a firearms officer. you're there to do a job which probably would lead to a situation where you had to kill someone. BUT the SYSTEM will not support you in any way. no amount of wage money would ever compensate for what happened to those officers. It undoubtedly has shortened their lives with the stress especially when the upper officers LIKE that Ian Blair lie about how things were. Good luck ole mate you're on your own.

I have just watched the rest of the program about the shooting of Jean Charles Mendez and it has interviews with members of the public and the actual officers who shot him. It is a factual program of actual facts. What I take from this program is that there was a complete disjoint between the firearms officers and the higher up officers and the information that was passed between them. Basically the officers were told code red which meant that they were in control of the situation and to shoot to stop the person getting on the train. After they had shot him the upper officers, (Ian Blair & Cressida **** ) Denied they had issued this order and that they knew who he was. The officers were hung out to dry and Were subject to investigation for 10 years. I strongly advise anyone to watch the program on 4 catchup. it is a complete disgrace. I don't have a side in this just the truth.

The man was in a confined area (stairwell) which made it a very dangerous approach for the armed officer... So he wasn't a threat to 3rd parties. there was no need to do anything.. Unless the armed man started to advance discharging rounds at the armed officer. Then shoot. the majority of all of these cases the person is THOUGHT to be armed and is a general nutter. coincidentally the Mrs is currently watching a recorded program about the shooting of the Brazilian electrician on the tube. Edit... after watching more of this program they are talking to the officers involved. it Turns out that SOME people knew the identity of the guy shot. they didn't tell the firearms crew. AND one of the officers was at HQ when the commissioner was on his way to the press conference. He knew but at the press conference he stated that he didn't and that was a total lie. he wasn't mistaken, It was a deliberate lie. all covered with muddle and basically swept under the carpet. Cressida **** wasn't wheeled in and chopped immediately until there was a whole string of cock up's. And it's wondered why the police are held In such low esteem . At the present time there are so many officers that are being sacked for a big raft of issues. They cant sack them fast enough. it runs into HUNDREDS.. YES HUNDREDS. They've got convictions for everything under the sun. Rape, theft, Fraud everything.

I don't care who I upset but there have been far too many shootings of innocent people by firearms officers. and it is always covered up as a split second judgement decision. I know that it is a difficult decision but the whole situation is all hyped up with officers shouting and acting like a bunch of cowboys. There was the electrician on the underground. The drunk bloke who was a carpenter who had a chair leg wrapped in a sheet which was tied to his crossbar. The bloke in Hastings who was naked in bed and was shot because he was deemed to have had a large weapon and was shot. It not good enough. All sort of swept under the carpet. far too many. I'm not saying that a lot of these people weren't Snowy White but a lot didn't need to be shot dead. I know that police officers don't go to work to kill people but it happens. Generally the police have no credibility with the general public and stuff like this doesn't help. Whole sections of the public view the police as an enemy.

Yes it is scummers chucking stuff out of the car BUT the councils are to blame by being Hitlers at the disposal sites and charging the earth to remove anything. A few local women go out litter picking along the main road and it is blatantly obvious that it is people of the village dumping drinks cans and plastic bottles. Going out one way it is all on the left and going the other way it is all on the left. indicating that it is the passenger side that is dumping it. another odd practice is that SOMEONE has for many years been going through a local lane and its as if the passenger is reading a newspaper and dumping pages out as they go along. several miles of it.

When people talk about how the weather was different years ago or that some only remember what they want to. I remember that when I was a kid that in the Autumn going to school that very often it was very, very foggy and the grass was loaded with water beads on the mass of spiders webs. By about 10 is the sun would come out and burn the fog off. These mornings were called hop picking weather. Summers were summers and winters were winters. In the village there was a steep field that was known as the sledging field. It seemed as if the whole village turned out for snowball fights and sledging . Father even had a six person sledge MADE by the village carpenter and the steel runners made by the village blacksmith. Nowadays we don't get much if any snow at all. if we do get some snow it is gone by lunchtime and fathers sledge would never get used. Opposed to this we don't generally get the flaming June and the heat of August. It's as if the weather had equaled itself out.

We don't have winter in the tropical SE. It has been odd weather over the past week. It's been a dull grey, very still, very close and there hasn't been much road traffic at all. It's been more like during the covid period .... quiet.

😂 Did this guy ask... what's a SGC gov.? The only possible downside could be that he knows where you live.

Known in the trade as a chancer. Imagine the potential problems if you had sold it to this clown. He could have gone straight round to the local school .. or anywhere and done naughty things with it and you would have been held responsible.

😃😄😆😅 Love it, Love it, Love it. It just makes you wonder how these oafs manage to put the cornflakes in their mouths. Ere mate got a new gun mate. 😂😂🤣😂.

What is this app.? What do you do with it.?

Ok, the above can be very patchy. Ok my GP's surgery practise can be a real pain to deal with to get an appointment and it can be a bit of a lottery as to getting through. They only book appointments for the day in the morning. You have to be keen hound on the phone. 2 seconds to 8 and the line is not open. 1 second past 8, you might get in the queue and be given a queue position number. There is a similar second session at 11 o'clock. mostly I have been able to get an appointment on the day. But you can use E consult which can contain pictures of a condition. When I had an operation on my Achilles tendon I got an infection. One of my daughters took pictures of the pink leg and within half an hour we had a reply which told us that antibiotics had been prescribed and half an hour later the girls had been to the docs, got the prescription and had returned . Some of it means that you have to be a bit tech savvy and have the use and knowledge of phone , Apps and the internet.

where is that.?

We have some friends where the woman loves shooting and is a very good shot. The man is into bikes and cars. I took her clay shooting to another of my friends and she was so made up with the situation that he had. Suddenly there announced that they were selling up ..... LIKE NOW. and ended up moving from Kent right up in the north of Scotland. I'm not tottally sure of the exact location because it is all hush hush and secret.???? Basically it sort of forms into sort of idea of seclusion .?? The idea is a bit sort of along the lines of the TV series "The good life". from what I understand it might be an idea but the reality is that It is pretty miserable up there. It rains, Constantly. It's cold, Mainly, Its blowing a gale, Mostly. She can't find any shooting , the locals are pretty dour and treat them as interlopers. He hates it and wants to come back home tomorrow. It's like being in a lift. all the time you in that lift, your being transported up or down BUT if you get out of the lift (sell up} you either stay where you are or you have to use the stairs to go up or down. It would not surprise me if they parted ways and he came back down south and she didn't .. who knows, but it doesn't sound like something I would do.. up sticks and go somewhere else on an idea. People are just people and there are good and bad in all situations. you just have to make the best of what you have. Ps. A family moved down here from the western isles and they hated it, Mainly tied up with the weather. they said that it was too warm down here. Example.. one day it was very cold but the bloke was wandering about in a vest T shirt. they went back up north after a year down in the tropical south.

A nice gun. Shame about the blood stain but it will still do what it was designed to do. I really looked hard at a Guerini Aruem In 28. Really nice quality gun but I bought an AyA #2 SL rounded action in28 instead.