Quote: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?