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Originally Posted by finnbow
Between the terrorist scares of 9/11, the Cliven Bundy types and crime rates in bad areas, police have had (until now) no resistance from anyone in accruing such arsenals. Hell, most of that stuff was leftover freebies from our Mideast follies.
Living around here and having lived in western Europe, I don't get freaked out by the sight of such weaponry. It's all a matter of how it's used. Back in the Baader-Meinhof Red Army Faction days in Germany and Italy, I'd see guys like that fairly frequently.
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I don't like seeing civilians looking like soldiers. I don't want the cops having shit like this, nor the right wing militia types, or the drug cartels, or anybody else except the military. If the civilian police find themselves outgunned by the bad guys I'm for tossing the Posse Comitatus Act in the shit can and sending the 101st Airborne in after them.