The Rude Pundit: Photos That Complicate the Whole Vegas Shooter Narrative

[Jamastiene]

32. I wonder when I see how militarized the police are getting nowadays.

It makes me worry about when the right wing gets back in control. Obama might be giving the cops lots of guns and ammo, but I think about the right wing government leaders who will use it and HOW they will use it in the future.

Maybe I am just the flip side of the coin, paranoid from the left, but consider this:
I saw a news story about something that happened and a police officer from another country was talking about the incident. He politely warned the person who had done something that disturbed the peace, but wasn't violent or aggressive. This police officer spoke calmly and without seething hatred and without an explosive violence bubbling just under the surface. Even the video of the police officers responding to the nuisance call was calm.

My first thought was that if it had been American cops, they would go in, shoot the family dog, taze any infants in the house, beat down any elderly people that were too slow to get away, shoot the nonviolent offender, go on TV and claim how volatile the situation was and how afraid for their lives the cops were, then call it a day. Just another day in America, at this point.

Yes, I think about what right wingers will do with police that are so militarized AND so violent at their disposal. I tend to think less guns, not more, is the solution. America needs some serious anger management and therapy for the paranoia. We are STILL suffering from the paranoia effects of the atmosphere Dubya's administration created using 9/11 as an excuse. It has to stop somewhere or we will all end up in the streets killing each other. Oh, wait, that is already happening.