I do'nt know if that analysis is correct, but if it is... then yes, I'm okay as FCCK with it.
I hate the idea that my local town can just decide one day to become a paramilitary sheriff unit. Cause if they have that shit, they will use it in order to keep that budget line item. And they'll use it when not necessary, in order to keep it necessary.
thin line between posse commatatus (spelling? lol) and just letting the local police drive tanks around. I don't want either. Too many idiots. Imagine that idiot guy that killed a suspect recently - he wasn't a cop, he was a ride-along donor who bought himself some gunplay. Do you want him driving tanks too?
Local police don't need army tanks. They don't. They have snipers and mp5s and they have grenades, and they have numbers. Can anyone list the times in the past 5 years, anywhere, where a tank solved a problem that the armored swat battering vehicle would not? Any case where plane-mounted machine guns totally saved the day?
It's nice to support law enforcement, but it crosses the line into deepthroating their junk when we scream the need for local tanks lol.