{"id":39566,"date":"2015-07-07T14:44:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T18:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=39566"},"modified":"2015-07-07T14:44:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T20:50:47","slug":"norway-makes-strong-case-for-disarming-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/norway-makes-strong-case-for-disarming-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway Makes Strong Case for Disarming Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian police officers rarely use their firearms while on duty, according to statistics released by their government.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldviews\/wp\/2015\/07\/08\/norwegian-cops-fired-their-guns-twice-last-year-and-missed-both-times\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"norway-makes-strong-case-for-disarming-police\" title=\"Norway Makes Strong Case for Disarming Police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported on the numbers<\/a>, here are some of the graphs they put together to give one an idea of how infrequently\u00a0Norwegian police threaten to use firearms, actually fire their firearms, injure people a result of shooting their firearms and kill people with their firearms.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_39567\" style=\"width: 702px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Threatened.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"norway-makes-strong-case-for-disarming-police\" title=\"Norway Makes Strong Case for Disarming Police\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39567\" title=\"Norway Makes Strong Case for Disarming Police\" class=\"wp-image-39567 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Threatened.jpg\" alt=\"Threatened \" width=\"692\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Threatened.jpg 692w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Threatened-150x110.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Threatened-400x294.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39567\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(<em>Photo: The Washington Post<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_39568\" style=\"width: 722px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ShotsFired.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"norway-makes-strong-case-for-disarming-police\" title=\"Norway Makes Strong Case for Disarming Police\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39568\" title=\"Norway Makes Strong Case for Disarming Police\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ShotsFired.jpg\" alt=\"Number of shots fired by police each year.  \" width=\"712\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ShotsFired.jpg 712w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ShotsFired-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ShotsFired-400x280.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(<em>Photo: The Washington Post<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_39569\" style=\"width: 699px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Injured.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"norway-makes-strong-case-for-disarming-police\" title=\"Norway Makes Strong Case for Disarming Police\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39569\" title=\"Norway Makes Strong Case for Disarming Police\" class=\"wp-image-39569 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Injured.jpg\" alt=\"Number of people injured \" width=\"689\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Injured.jpg 689w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Injured-150x110.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Injured-400x293.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(<em>Photo: The Washington Post<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_39570\" style=\"width: 714px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Killed.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"norway-makes-strong-case-for-disarming-police\" title=\"Norway Makes Strong Case for Disarming Police\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39570\" title=\"Norway Makes Strong Case for Disarming Police\" class=\"wp-image-39570 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Killed.jpg\" alt=\"Number of people killed each year by Norwegian Police.  (Photo: Washington Post) \" width=\"704\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Killed.jpg 704w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Killed-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Killed-400x283.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39570\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(<em>Photo: The Washington Post<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Washington Post went on to say, &#8220;There&#8217;s a simple reason for the lack of police shootings. While there are many hunters in the country and gun ownership is relatively common, Norway is one of a handful of European nations where police officers don&#8217;t usually carry guns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hmmmm. Interesting. What&#8217;s also interesting is that by the Post&#8217;s count police in the U.S. have already shot and killed as many as 400 people this year. Yikes!<\/p>\n<p>The implication here is that when officers are unarmed they are less likely to use firearms in the line of duty which results in fewer firearm-related incidents, injuries and deaths. \u00a0Makes sense&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there is another side effect to having a force of unarmed police officers. \u00a0That is, they&#8217;re are defenseless in the face of evil. \u00a0Case in point, Norway mass murderer\u00a0Anders Behring Breivik who killed 77 people, including an unarmed police officer, in shooting and bombing attacks in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>There is a reason why police officers carry guns in the U.S.. \u00a0To protect themselves. \u00a0Personally, as a private citizen it doesn&#8217;t matter to me if police opt to put down their guns, but there is a tradeoff to this non-lethal posture that is hard to ignore. \u00a0No guns = soft target. \u00a0And it might be the reason why the Norwegian government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.norwaypost.no\/index.php\/news\/latest-news\/30510\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"norway-makes-strong-case-for-disarming-police\" title=\"Norway Makes Strong Case for Disarming Police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is reconsidering its position,<\/a> especially in the wake of heightened terror alerts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian police officers rarely use their firearms according to statistics released by their government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":39572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,261,216,240],"tags":[132,122],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-police-state","9":"category-s-h-blannelberry","10":"category-this-week","11":"tag-buzz","12":"tag-r2kba"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Norway Makes Strong Case for Disarming Police<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Norwegian police officers rarely use their firearms according to statistics released by their government.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/norway-makes-strong-case-for-disarming-police\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Norway Makes Strong Case for Disarming Police\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Norwegian police officers rarely use their firearms according to statistics released by their government.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/norway-makes-strong-case-for-disarming-police\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gun Reviews and News | GunsAmerica.com\/Digest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-07-07T18:44:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-18T20:50:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/1200x630_290008_norway-police-carry-guns-ami.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"S.H. 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