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> the moment a gun is reported it causes a massive response. As a criminal, bringing a gun massively increases your risk, as without one you're unlikely to run

• vidarh 5y ago
  > Bringing a gun causes the tactical team to come in rather than the normal cops Missing the point, which is that this is a meaningful escalation in Norway where regular cops do not carry guns in most instances. It's a far less meaningful escalation when you're facing armed police either way. The point both with that and the sentencing is that it creates a sharp escalation from a low risk base. Escalation only works as a deterrence from negative behaviours if the lowest risk alternative is actually seen as low risk.