Officers call for police cars to be equipped with guns

See I was imagining a Met-issue technical but yours is objectively cooler.

The fear seems to be that access to guns quickly leads to normalisation of guns, especially if the criminals try to keep up.

But I can imagine a middle ground where guns and training are available, but you have to get permission from a specialist who’s on the hook if it turns out the guns weren’t justified (or some such idea to stop them ending up in every action) to unlock the gun safe. Then the “domestic with a shotgun” scenario might be resolved a little more efficiently without everyone having to accept guns everywhere.

You would think that a decent number of pice would be trained in firearms use and then at least have some guns available at each station that can then send out a trained officer when needed.