Obama is coming for your guns!

[d-ray657]

Originally Posted by matteos

I agree with you cops are being too militarized. They're getting all the Iraqi war surplus. Sure give them guns, give Swat teams automatic weapons and armored cars. But regular police don't need battle gear.. And what is that, a sniper rifle? Why does anyone outside SWAT need a sniper rifle. We don't need a militarized force here. We have the Posse Comitatus Act for a reason.... Turning the Police into a military seems to be some lame work around and it should not be allowed to continue.

I would assume from the photo that the officer is on some sort of tactical team, like a SWAT team. There is nothing in the photo to suggest that he is a beat cop.

Regards,

D-Ray

[matteos]

It's possible, but here it says local police
http://rt.com/usa/180376-ferguson-mi...olice-weapons/

Maybe it's the local swat or lazy journalism, who can say

[matteos]

Even if it's swat. Swat should be like special forces, like seal team six. . Especially bad jobs.... they roll in and with training, tactics and weapons take out a strong force of bad guys. . You know Special Weapons And Tactics. They shouldn't be rolled up for every situation or pointing guns at protesters. They're there for difficult circumstances, hostages, terrorism etc, not quelling peaceful protests
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/us...ents.html?_r=0

This is changing and backs up the point I've made.

You start fighting a war with only the SAS... is not the SAS anymore is overequipped army regulars.

[merrylander]

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.

Yeah every time I stepped off a plane in Europe most airports had guards with that type of firearm. Hell in the late 1960s early 1970s there were armed guards at the entrance to the Bell building with those Sterling grease guns.

[Boreas]

John

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by finnbow

You truly are a dissembling fool. Idioms, by definition, aren't supposed to make perfect literal sense. If they did, they wouldn't be idioms. If someone says "It's raining cats and dogs," do you actually think cats and dogs are falling from the sky?

Your MO is apparent to anybody with eyes. You first try to shout people down and, if that doesn't work, you simply make shit up. You get called out on it and you go off on some silly side-tangent rant to distract from your original idiocy/rudeness. Predictably pathetic.

You're such a whining simp.

[Zeke]

I was trained with a Glock, a .223 Mini 14 and a Mossberg 500.

Past that, call in the National Guard.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by Boreas

John

Jesus Christ Almighty!

This is a street in America?

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

You're such a whining simp.

A simp? Dunno about that, but I do have a strong aversion to vulgar blowhards.

[Pio1980]

I don't have a problem with adequality armed non-adversarially oriented law enforcement. Otoh, an adversarial relationship is inevitably both inherently toxic and unjust.

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