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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! 

 

Even if the governor immediately mobilizes the National Guard, it'll still take a day or two before any of it arrives.  So if it were a racial cleansing in a town, you allow genocide while you wait for the National Guard to arrive?  Or like I said, an active shooter with an automatic rifle, you wait a day or two to dispatch the National Guard to a school?

 

Your issues, again, seem to be armor and automatic weapons.  That is NOT militarization by today's standards.  It's called the modernization of the police force.  The civilian populace is more armed than 50 years ago so in turn the police's weaponry must advance accordingly.  

 

I can tell you this:  If I'm a police officer, I am not running into a mall with my hand gun to fight 2 people with frag grenades, body armor, and automatic weapons.  That's called suicide.

 

Look at that one video like 25 years ago when those two armed men were marching down the street in I think LA with full armor and gunning down everyone.  It took the police hours and a lucky sniper shot between the armor to quell the situation.  But then again, police shouldn't have sniper rifles either, right?

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