We already have Islamist terrorist attacks.
There was the
7/7 bombings, in 2005, which were the first and most horrific Islamist terrorist attacks on the country.
In 2007 there was an attack on the Glasgow International Airport, where a car filled with bombs was driven at the entrance and exploded. Bollards stopped the car, and no one died, but a few were injured.
There was an
attempted Self Delete attack in Exeter in 2008, but no one died, and only the attacker was injured.
Then there was the murder of
Lee Rigby in 2013, a soldier who was killed in the street. They ran him down in a car and attacked him with knives.
As sas as it is to say, the UK is used to terrorist attacks.
We dealt with them for around 30 years, from the IRA.
Yes, when I went to York, not a single officer had a gun.
They don't need guns for their everday policing.
There are specialist gun units capable of arriving quickly to any scene, who are firearms trained.