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Is Trump right to militarise US Police?

Trump signs executive order lifting Obama-era ban on police departments getting surplus military equipment – including armored vehicles and grenade launchers
President Trump is set to sign an executive order Monday that will overturn a military equipment ban for law enforcement officials
Attorney General Jeff Sessions discussed the plan during the annual meeting of Fraternal Order of Police in Nashville, Tennessee
Under the plan, an Obama-era executive order would be overturned
Trump's new order will reinstate police departments' ability to obtain firearms, bayonets, 50-caliber ammunition, riot shields – and even grenade launchers
Obama's executive order was first put into place amid controversy following a militarized police response to 2014 race riots in Ferguson, Missouri

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Virgo79 · 61-69, M

If that were the case, they all already got all that from before Obama sighned the ban.
I know our police got a few hand guns and some shotguns some yrs ago.
I don't think we'll see any tanks, lol.

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BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F

@Virgo79 Tanks, probably not. But they have armored jeeps now. Which looks super cool, but what the hell do they need that for? It's not like your average hoodlum has an RPG to shoot at them.

Virgo79 · 61-69, M

@BlueMetalChick armored jeep, well if they got those all that would do keep them from get to shot while setting in it.
As has happened

katielass · F

@Virgo79 A couple weeks ago these histrionic leftists were terrified that NK would launch a nuke at us. This week they're being manipulated into thinking the police are going to run around town in tanks launching grenades. If it wasn't so pathetic, it would be funny.

Virgo79 · 61-69, M

@katielass they gotta have something, as they say never give up☺

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katielass · F

@Virgo79 yeah, and as you know who said, so easily manipulated ad too stupid to know it.

katielass · F

@ExampleAccount12345 The leftists right here were nuts over the imagined impending nuclear war, having taken their cues from the mentally ill nut jobs on cnn and mslsd. Remember the left is easily manipulated and too stupid to know it.

As for President Trump, that's not playing chicken dumbo, it's called being tough and firm. And it worked. We showed that little turd that we no longer have a dumb ass pussy in the WH who can be led around by the nose.

Virgo79 · 61-69, M

@katielass pussy,😯 you mean Obama😂🤣

katielass · F

@Virgo79 Yes, who has been more pussified. Remember how the world laughed behind his back because he was so prissy. But they liked the fact that he was so easy to manipulate and get one over on.

Virgo79 · 61-69, M

@katielass oh I know!!
Was being silly😂
It was embarrasing to be honest

katielass · F

@Virgo79 yes it was embarrassing. I want a president who the rest of the world doesn't "like". That alone tells me he's putting US first. They only like the dumb ass fools they can lead around by the nose and get us to pay for everything and we prop up their failing socialistic economies. It's high time they face the consequences for their stupidity. You want socialism? Fine, pay for it.

BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F

@Virgo79 Obama wasn't a pussy, he was a jackass for all the drone strikes he led on Pakistan and other Middle Eastern countries, with no congressional approval as an act of war. Bush did it too, Trump is doing it now, its bullshit.

Virgo79 · 61-69, M

@BlueMetalChick I hope the keep it up, gotta get the terrorist.
Doing it that way saves innocent lives.

BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F

@Virgo79 The drone strikes aren't killing terrorists. 88% of the casualties are civilians. They're even killing Americans. A recent drone strike on an "ISIS training camp" killed zero ISIS operatives, 35 civilians, and an 8 year old American girl.

Virgo79 · 61-69, M

@BlueMetalChick wonder what they were doing at a training camp🤔

BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F

@Virgo79 They weren't at a training camp. The drone strikes are a massive failure, they're not bombing training camps or ISIS headquarters, they're blowing up weddings and field trips and funerals and random people.

Virgo79 · 61-69, M

@BlueMetalChick you expect me to believe that?
Where did you hear such crap?

BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F

@Virgo79 Pretty much every source I can find. Death toll numbers in particular.

Virgo79 · 61-69, M

☺

BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F

@Virgo79 Why is that something to smile over? You think it's good to make yourself hated by bombing random countries, murdering their people, and killing your own citizens?

Virgo79 · 61-69, M

I'm similing at you.
Not about bombing other country's, ww2, is over

BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F

@Virgo79 And the Second World War was the only time in history when bombs were dropped on foreign countries? Did you miss...the entire second half of the 20th century, and the last seventeen years?

*Countries. Not country's. I'm sorry I know that seems dumb but apostrophes annoy me; it's a pet peeve.

Virgo79 · 61-69, M

@BlueMetalChick haha no I didn't but they don't just bomb everything possible like ww2.
It's more precise now to what it was then.

BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F

@Virgo79 The bombs themselves are "smarter", yes, they're higher tech and more accurate, but unlike that time period, a nation's enemies can no longer be pointed to on a map, one country is not at war with an entire other country. Those casualties have become much more well recorded, and like I told you earlier, almost nine tenths of the people killed in drone strikes in the Middle East are not terrorists, insurgents, rebels, etc. They're not bad guys.

Virgo79 · 61-69, M

@BlueMetalChick maybe you should join them then, see how sweet they are..... heck they wouldnt use you as a shield, or cut off your head, burn you in a cage, no way.
Your starting to sound like Hillary, thinking if your nice everything will be roses and sunshine. Well they are trying to kill you and being nice isn't going to matter.
Do some reading on their religon. This is deeply engrained it's not going to end anytime soon.
Yes innocent people have been killed, and more will be but not as many as was in other wars.
Sorry I can't help that!
But it can't be just ignored or they will get us!!!

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