Quote:When you or I can own automatic weapons, why wouldnt the police?

 

So a crowd at a Jags game requires National Guard work?

 

You are skewed on what police work is.  Police are not there to network to prevent crime, they are there to police it and stop it.  Hence the word, police.

 

You can't own an automatic weapon without an FFL3 license and it's next to impossible in most states. The police don't fight wars, they are peacekeepers in the community, peacekeepers don't need automatic weapons.

 

The crowd at a Jags game is private security or hired officers paid time off to patrol the event, just like construction companies pay officers over time to sit on the road during night work. How does that justify the need for a militarized police force?

 

Until the War on Drugs that's what police did, they patrolled a specific area. Worked to know the people in that community, the police where apart of a community not rulers over a community.

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