Quote:M4, not M16.  

 

That you think automatic weapon fire is military munitions is funny.  Basically, you are against police having armor and automatic weapons?  Again, how are police supposed to suppress an active shooter situation without tactically superior weapons? 

 

Reports are that molotav cocktails are being made and thrown in Ferguson.  Granted, it hasn't become a huge problem yet, but what happens when it does become a problem?  What happens if rioters start launching homemade cocktails regularly and using homemade bombs?  Police are supposed to let the rioters occupy an entire city and wait for the National Guard to come in and militarize the city as a battlefield?  That you feel that police shouldn't meet force with force, is a little shocking.  Make no mistake, a mob of 300 plus people is a significant show of force.

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A mob of 300 people is not the local police responsibility that's what the national guard is for. If and when there was civil unrest with police being targeted with bombs and cocktails, then you could address that specific area of concern. Maybe the solution would be to bring in the National Guard for a time like in Fergesun, but to assume police across America need MRAP's, APC, M4's, Grenade Launchers, Body Armor and so on is ludicrous. It enforces the viewpoint that's being drilled into them from the federal level America is a War Zone. It's the same justification that's been used to pass legislation such as the NDAA where the President (any president) has the power to detain and or assassinate American Citizens deemed a threat to the state! 

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