Thank you for the clarification Kitty.kitty wrote:*sigh* I know that, this isn't what I meant at all. These people do not think that the police should be allowed to be in possession of ARs, for any reason. They are afraid that they will use it for evil, instead of protecting themselves or citizens. In other words, they don't like cops. How can police do their jobs if they are out gunned? One of the reasons Spade bought them the rifles was to help them with the drug cartels coming out of Mexico and going into the Phoenix.flintknapper wrote:Hi Kitty,kitty wrote:I am actually on another message board talking to people who don't think he should have done this. They honestly do not think the police should need AR's, and this is a conservative board.Unbelievable.
Most of us here don't think the police "SHOULD need AR's" either. But as the complexion of crimes has changed, so have tactics and weapons for LEO.
"Should" they "need" high powered weaponry? Not in the society we lived in 30 yrs.> ago, but these are not those times (unfortunately).
I would wager...if you asked the average patrolman if he/she is happy about needing increasingly powerful/tactical weaponry...they would say no. Everyone would love to go back to the days where police mostly wrote speeding tickets, cleared the way for parades and funerals, and occasionally ran into a bonified bad guy. Times have changed, and not for the better.
I understand now.
