Simulist wrote:stickdog99 wrote:Alchemy wrote:One thing that this proved is that we no longer just have simple police forces and depts in the US, we now have paramilitary armies policing our streets. There is no difference in looks, capability and resources that they have at their disposal between the domestic police and the US military, none. They dont need to bring military troops and tanks on to the streets like Alex Jones screams about, the cops have been turned in to those troops and they also have tanks etc and they are already on the streets and can be deployed at any time as evidenced in Boston.
Exactly. What is exactly is the difference between between cops who look and perform their duties exactly like like military troops "securing" my neighborhood and actual military troops "securing" my neighborhood?
To preserve "Homeland Security", federal, state and local police forces appear to have been turned into full-fledged paramilitary units. Questioning their existence, methods or whims is not allowed. Terrorists are bad. Paramilitary units in our neighborhoods are good because they protect us from terrorists. "We will hunt them down, and if God help anyone who gets in our way."
Well, that's a pretty short-sighted view. [b]One of the reasons police forces have taken on the look of "full-fledged paramilitary units" is because some of the citizenry in this country are better-armed than they are![/b]
But when someone wants to try and reign in that insanity just a bit by proposing sensible restrictions on certain classes of firearms, fear-fueled portions of the populace go into batshit crazy mode.
I see what you mean but I think that was sort of the point of arming the citizenry to begin with.
"People should not fear their government, their government should fear them"-Thomas Jefferson
"There are two enemies of the People: criminals and the government. Let us bind the second with the chains of the Constitution, so that it does not become the legalized version of the first. Thomas Jefferson"
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
While the Declaration of Independence is not law, it is a clear explanation of the justification for founding the United States and lays the groundwork for the Second Amendment:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
The primary threat to any free state is it's own government, and the Founder unquestionably wrote this Amendment with that fact in mind.
However, as in a bar fight when someone else is in the wrong, you'd better be bigger.
I am not some gun nut who advocates regular people should have machine guns, so dont take that the wrong way, I am just sayin....