Then how do you explain that my local town's police department (30,000 population) just received a "surplus" 12-ton APC complete with desert camo paint, armored top, bottom and sides?
What do you thing my "local" police department is going to do with that thing?
“Then how do you explain that my local town’s police department (30,000 population) just received a “surplus” 12-ton APC complete with desert camo paint, armored top, bottom and sides?....What do you thing my “local” police department is going to do with that thing?”
What does that have to do with what I said I want (a Big government ONLY to provide for NATIONAL defense against foreign threats). I NEVER said anything about wanting a local law enforcement agency to become a military force - an obvious abuse of power and clearly - IMO - illegal. What the current administration has done is NOT the result of what I said I want in a Federal Government. IF you libertarian types get your way (which you won’t) and manage to get Rand Paul elected...you “may” be able to stop the local abuse of police authority....but at the same time HE IS ISOLATIONIST and WILL serverely cut and gut our military (not being used as a weapon against the people) to where we WILL BE open and vulnerable to foreign attack.
BTW - Stop moaning about your PD having APCs and deal with it at the local and state level. Don’t turn the Federal Government over to a what is essentially a peacenik to deal with local abuses you should have stood against...and rallied your community against.
Also, although the thought of an APC is disturbing, and I don’t like it, unless it also has a fully automatic machine gun turret on it....then it is just an armored vehicle. All it does is protect those inside from small arms fire. It really doesn’t pose that grave a danger to honest citizens. It is almost silly that anyone would want such a vehicle. However, I fully agree that it looks bad, and is definitely NOT a step in the right direction...but it is a local issue. Deal with it locally. Yes, I know the feds gave it to your community, but they didn’t HAVE to take it. If your community would say no, then the officials would say no or lose the next election.