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Should police officers be equipped with military grade weapons?

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Militarized Police Force?
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So what do you guys think about having police outfitted with military grade weaponry?
I was reading into some of the reports regarding the Ferguson protests/riots going on in St. Luis
and came across a video on how the pentagon supplied the police force with military grade weapons.
Any thoughts?

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I really dont see a point in it since we already have swat which have the military grade weapons if things get bad
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I believe in some places they should be armed (Chicago, NYC, ect...) but for the most part no. You don't need a swat team in a small team town like mine, but we got one anyway...
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Its just straight up fascism. I don't want to live in a police state.
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Beet wrote Its just straight up fascism. I don't want to live in a police state.


It's not "fascism" because fascism is defined as:
an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.


That's not what's going on, people are out of control right now, and the police are trying to get it under control by any means necessary.
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It would be too overly expensive and really unneeded. The regular police forces around the world do not need the higher grade weapons. The only variant that I see needing better weapons (which they already have) is S.W.A.T.
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