Do I think every town of 10,000 should have a SWAT Team with a million dollars worth of DHS gear and armored trucks? No, and this is clearly what is happening.
You call it knee jerking and we call it healthy skepticism. If we are wrong no harm no foul. If you are wrong huge harm and huge foul.
Is my owning a fire extinguisher and wearing a seat belt knee jerking as well considering I am probably not going to have a wreck resulting in a fire?
And I agree with you.
Is my owning a fire extinguisher and wearing a seat belt knee jerking as well considering I am probably not going to have a wreck resulting in a fire?
No it isn't a knee jerk. But if I were to accuse of being a reckless driver because only a reckless driver would need a seat belt, that would be a knee jerk on my behalf.
You call it knee jerking and we call it healthy skepticism. If we are wrong no harm no foul. If you are wrong huge harm and huge foul.
Being skeptical is one thing. I'm skeptical of the millions upon millions of rounds of ammo fedgov just bought. The original posts to this thread were that I&I was Intelligence and Interrogation and that these guys were about to lock down Anytown USA like it was "Escape From LA." I didn't know what unit was training, so I went and actually attempted Due Diligence and looked up that it was a MP unit (it'd be a different story if an infantry unit was teaching squad tactics to police). I provided reasons based on observation and experience for why this training is occurring.
But for some reason, it just has to be that I support a police state in the US and get off on violating civilian's Constitutional Rights. It can't be that I have difference of opinion, or that I am familiar with the training....it has to be that I am some jack boot because I don't want to fall in line with the herd mentality.