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 trexmeyer wrote:

In the Indianapolis suburbs, officers said they needed a mine-resistant vehicle to protect against a possible attack by veterans returning from war.

“You have a lot of people who are coming out of the military that have the ability and knowledge to build I.E.D.’s and to defeat law enforcement techniques,” Sgt. Dan Downing of the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department told the local Fox affiliate, referring to improvised explosive devices, or homemade bombs. Sergeant Downing did not return a message seeking comment.

Are you fething kidding me? Who the feth in the military is building IEDs? I can see some people knowing how, but a lot? And how the feth is it justifiable to suggest servicemen are going to become terrorists?

If this article isn't a pile of made up bs...well then I am completely justified in distrusting and disliking police. This is complete insanity.

Military dumps the gear so it can buy new gear.
Police want gear because its tacticool and Sheriff Roscoe went all hah hah hah at them last year when the sheriffs got their tacticool B52, and the Police want to keep up.

Yea its because of mines...


THE PROBLEM IS a three ponged nexus of bad day:
1. Tacticool builds the Tacticool occupier mindset
2. No knock warrant searches have expanded to speeding tickets resulting in people getting killed.
3. Militia types get more militia'y, and regular folks start viewing the PoPo as an occupying force, just like in LA (outside of cutesy Hollywood areas).



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 DarkTraveler777 wrote:

Jefffar wrote:
Because police in the United States have no reason to be concerned for their safety.

And who protects us from gun-happy police?

No one.

 Jihadin wrote:
Why does LEO need crew serve weapons again? Anyone help me buy a clue for that?

For the Children!

 EmilCrane wrote:
Defense contractors built so many MRAPs, might as well not let them go to waste. The coment about vets building IEDs was dumb but a lot of the military's unneeded COIN equipment might as well go the the police, better than just taking up space.

And its not like the police haven't already got assault rifles and silencers and stuff like that. The military isn't going to be handing out M1A2s any time soon so I'm not sure what the issue here is?

No its better to let it take up space. We didn't hand out M48 tanks to the PoPo either.

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 EmilCrane wrote:

An MRAP is not an M48, for one thing the M48 has a 90 or 105mm cannon, MRAPs come unarmed, or at least their function is unchanged if you remove the pintle mount. No one is talking about giving the police MBTs, but those MRAPs are going to waste and they actually have police applications, or least could be used by the police. A tank could not.

Actually, I'd rather see more of these MRAPs and the like retro fitted for S/R or forest fire/fire fighting duties, rather than your typical law enforcement applications. They can handle some pretty rugged terrain, and are pretty good at moving people from point A to B and I think people would be far less "against" the idea if they knew they were being used for strictly "good" things.

But they aren't.

DOn't disagree. Its logical and workable. Therefore no chance in heck.

 loki old fart wrote:

 Jihadin wrote:
http://www.milweb.net/classifieds.php?type=6

I SO WANT THAT!