Armed police

My daughter is 30 today, I bought her tickets for Phantom of the Opera, I hope that every other seat is occupied by police and that the staff are all surveillance officers in disguise and that the taxi driver who takes her back to the station is James Bond at least.

Ha ha marionk - probably not a good idea to joke though!

I have a friend who is very worried that her choir concert in a small midland market town might be targeted by terrorists. I told her it was unlikely! But who knows?

Very pleased to see the armed police and the bag searches happening at the Tall Ships event in Gloucester over the weekend, but in hindsight maybe my comment about tommy guns to the guard searching my husband's ukulele case was not as hilarious as I thought at the time???

We live in a seaside town. A far greater, visible, police presence now. Very pleased to see them.

Terrorists aren't always suicide bombers though. One armed with knives was shot at the Louvre recently, and the Bataclan attackers were shot by armed police. I think I read that a couple of them wore explosives vests.

Perhaps they can't but have a better chance than trying to handcuff them

how exactly will armed police stop a suicide bomber ? I'm interested .

Yes it is like that Alima, police can't do right for doing wrong.

At a Well Dressing in a Derbyshire village today there were 2 policemen with sniffer dogs walking through the crowds. I've never seen that before, not in the 20 years I've been attending the annual event. Whilst I'm sorry that it's felt necessary for police attendance, I'm very grateful that they were there. As NanaandGrampy says, better safe than sorry.

Today in a Sussex town another person was arrested in connection with the Manchester atrocity. Damned if they do carry guns, damned if they don't.

Better safe than sorry?

Well, we just don't know do we? We didn't think it was necessary in Manchester a week ago. I hope they were friendly, like the one at the walk in Manchester who posed for photos with children.

Hope you enjoyed the fair.