PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!! I truly hope this goes through our joke of a police force whose sole job is to 'protect and serve' is a nightmare of a joke and they don't need further ammunition to abuse their title and hurt/kill innocent people.

Yeah but...look, I agree the cops have been handling this all wrong and their behavior as a whole needs a serious overhaul. But if the bad ones don't have rubber bullets they're gonna use real ones. Maybe we should be like the UK and not give the patrol cops guns. But with a country this size, that'd be difficult especially with the illegal weapons trade and all the bad guys with automatic guns. We need more regulations, maybe more specialized units. I don't know. But every single cop needs a body can and if they turn it off while on duty they get in trouble. But every cop can't get a body can if departments get defunded. If the police are disbanded, who the hell is going to enforce the laws? Do you think criminals are just gonna stop committing crimes because there are no cops on the streets? Sorry, people in my town are calling for the defunding of the police. Good cops need to speak the f**k up. Also, we should take politics out of police and county sheriffs.

Good on them!

How are we expected to report racist scumbag comments here on this site? I see no reporting tool at all.

It meant nothing, they don't manufacture those things, so there is no way they would ship them even if they agreed. It's like someone in the Sahara Africa saying they refuse to ship bottled water to the US.

Thank you from an American.

Scotland now needs the worlds help, we need to remove ourselves from the UK, so many reasons. so so many. the gist of it is, we are being robbed blind, Scotland, the only country to hit oil and become poorer for it. our democracy is being destroyed, we have no voice. history buffs, look up a film called Nae Pasaran, its about workers actions in Scotland against the Chiles Pinochet. HELP SCOTLAND BREAT FREE FROM THE CORRUPT BRITS !!!

America is a laughing stock of the world right now and Trump is leading the way as the number 1 buffoon leading it! Everyoe needs to go about their protesting peacefully so you don't give them any reason to use tear gas, rubber bullets and riot gear. PLEASE calm down and do this right so no one else gets hurt! ALL LIVES MATTER! NOT JUST BLACK LIVES! YELLOW, BROWN, BLACK, RED AND WHITE!! WE ALL MATTER-!!-

It’s only cool when we use tear gas...

i am from Scotland and I wish my government would ban peat excavation, the destruction of peat bogs puts billions of tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere every year, and cause more CO2 emissions than air travel. Almost 90% of peat is sold as compost to amateur gardeners growing tomatoes. Also I have the great misfortune of living in Edinburgh where almost every scrap of the green belt is being turned into housing estates. Every single bill this parliament passes to protect animals and the environment are so full of loop holes that they are just not worth the paper they are written on, unless of course you run out of toilet paper. Birds of prey, such as eagles are regularly shot and poisoned all over Scotland, I hate to quote Trainspotting but "It is shite being Scottish"

It is not ok to loot stores and trains and burn buildings down and beat on random white people. I'm not jumping on the bandwagon

Well, when "protesters" start throwing objects, police has no choice but to respond. It's a shame that a few bad apples spoil the bunch, same principle applies to police.

They stopped selling it, but they didnt stop making it. Key omission there hmmm.

The Unicorn has a set of big balls if you ask me. Finally a government willing to take a stance.

GOOD CHOICE!!! This will only stop the police for a while though; they'll find a way.

Man they're idiots. Stopping supplies of rubber bullets does nothing. Obviously you don't need them to kill. Reform needs to be done on police training. Thats how they were trained. This whole world is full of idiots! P.S. don't bother replying i never check.

Statistics from the Department Of Justice. In 2019 police officers fatally shot 1,004 people, most of whom were armed or otherwise dangerous. African-Americans were about a quarter of those killed by cops last year (235), a ratio that has remained stable since 2015. That share of black victims is less than what the black crime rate would predict, since police shootings are a function of how often officers encounter armed and violent suspects. In 2018, the latest year for which such data have been published, African-Americans made up 53% of known homicide offenders in the U.S. and commit about 60% of robberies, though they are 13% of the population. The police fatally shot nine unarmed blacks and 19 unarmed whites in 2019, according to a Washington Post database, down from 38 and 32, respectively, in 2015. In 2018 there were 7,407 black homicide victims. Assuming a comparable number of victims last year, those nine unarmed black victims of police shootings represent 0.1% of all African-Americans killed in 2019. By contrast, a police officer is 18½ times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer. A cop is 18½ times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a cop. #BlueLivesMatter #FactsMatter

Cry me a river. And smart move, Scotland, you economic powerhouse, walking away from a source of revenue. Was this decision made under the influence? The left destroys all it touches.

Oh my! This is ridiculous! If people are out looting and burning, the police need to intervene. You can’t lump a whole nation together and say it’s racist. That’s just not the case! It’s the same as saying all blacks are criminals or all Germans are Nazis. Are we not noticing how many police have been shot and injured over this? If we don’t have police, think about it, what will happen. 🙄 They need to do their job.

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Scotland last year exported £1billion of whiskey to the USA. How many Americans do you think died as a result of alcoholism. How many people were killed by someone drunk on Scotch Whiskey? How many American women were raped, children neglected and abused by someone drunk on Scotch Whiskey? How many American people were maimed or assaulted? No, I don’t know either but I can guarantee that it is at least 1000 times more than people killed or injured by Scottish tear gas or bullets. Even countries are virtue signaling now, when will this madness end?

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What a stupid decision. If they have other options then it's not stupid but non lethal forms should be allowed especially since there is an increase in assault rifles at the protest by protesters