PCSO is a Police Community Support Officer. They are not trained policemen but act in communities to carry out routine work for which the trained police force has little time.
The three criminal losers responsible for this attack were all dead within eight minutes of the call received by the police that notified them of the incident. Several nationalities were caught up in the atrocity on Saturday night. The image of folk with their hands up is no more symbolic than seeing a number of innocent North American citizens lying face down after some kind of incedent, adopting that position because security forces need to bring order to chaos.
In the the U.K. we value our freedom as much as any decent civilised country. I don't come on to this site to discuss politics, or debate the arming of the police or citizens. I come to discuss and be informed about side by side sporting guns.
I'll stand by my country right or wrong. I have fought for my Queen and country against criminal terrorism on our own soil. I have lost friends and comrades, brothers in arms.
There is no surrender to this criminality here in the U.K. And writing that Europe is a sh1thole is disrespectful in the extreme, probably ignorant too, though I don't know the experience of the writer of that comment.
I am aware that others on here enjoy the give and take of commentary on world affairs, but I'd appeal for more considered remarks and a return to the broad subject of all our interest, fine sporting weapons.
Tim
