San Diego Unified School District has acquired an MRAP

[waggy]

WTF that is fucking insane. a mrap? M-16's? full body armor?

jesus fucking christ..

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Yup. Just like when the LAPD went drug busting with a tank.

http://youtu.be/zh175GnxvL4?t=20m31s

 

[alkemyst]

F**K us, soon even assault rifles won't be enough to defend should our leaders decide to take us down and make us cattle.

 

[mmntech]

Woops, guess I should have prefaced that in Texas, some school districts have their own police department (fully sworn officer's, no different than any other city police department).

But still, seems odd considering their areas of coverage are a high school, and a few middle and elementary schools and a small stadium.

Some schools got vehicles and body armor.

http://www.khou.com/story/news/inve...or-ammo-sent-to-texas-school-police/15112731/

They keep using the school shooting scenario, but the odds of it happening are so remote. Might as well enclose the building in a Faraday cage, because it has greater odds of being struck by lightning.

I'm not a conspiracy kinda guy, but I sometimes wonder what exactly they are preparing for by giving cops this kind of heavy firepower. Used to be a time they'd just give you the business end of a night stick if you were getting uppity. Now they're pointing military grade firearms at you.

 

[mizzou]

I imagine the urge to say "NO" to a $5,000 gigantic mine resistant armored personnel carrier is more then what the regular person has....lol

I bet 100% of you would fucking buy one if you had the chance!

 

[mizzou]

They keep using the school shooting scenario, but the odds of it happening are so remote. Might as well enclose the building in a Faraday cage, because it has greater odds of being struck by lightning.
.

After columbine, we all said we wouldn't ignore the fact that school shootings can happen anywhere.

Are you saying we should go back to ignoring that?

 

[Nebor]

Woops, guess I should have prefaced that in Texas, some school districts have their own police department (fully sworn officer's, no different than any other city police department).

But still, seems odd considering their areas of coverage are a high school, and a few middle and elementary schools and a small stadium.

Some schools got vehicles and body armor.

http://www.khou.com/story/news/inve...or-ammo-sent-to-texas-school-police/15112731/

And the concept that the ISD police can get their armored vehicle to the school faster than the local or county police is laughable. When the school is getting shot up, people are going to call 911, which is going to route to the local or county police. Do you think they're going to sit on their hands while the word is passed to the (generally lackluster) ISD police?

 

[MongGrel]

I imagine the urge to say "NO" to a $5,000 gigantic mine resistant armored personnel carrier is more then what the regular person has....lol

I bet 100% of you would fucking buy one if you had the chance!

$5000?

And no, I wouldn't want one if they paid me 10K a year to drive it.

As maintenance would be more than that I imagine.

 

[MongGrel]

After columbine, we all said we wouldn't ignore the fact that school shootings can happen anywhere.

Are you saying we should go back to ignoring that?

Are you 8 years old ?

 

[Dari]

WTF that is fucking insane. a mrap? M-16's? full body armor?

jesus fucking christ..

It's insane now. In 5 years it'll be the norm. The country is going downhill. Obama talks the talk but he's still giving these military weapons to civilian forces who have zero use for them.

 

[MongGrel]

It's insane now. In 5 years it'll be the norm. The country is going downhill. Obama talks the talk but he's still giving these military weapons to civilian forces who have zero use for them.

You're actually behind the times once again, they are trying to stop giving those out.

Was an old policy.

 

[Dari]

You're actually behind the times once again, they are trying to stop giving those out.

Was an old policy.

Proof? Also, these are handouts. There is no law being broken if the DoD asks for them back but I doubt they're doing that.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Proof? Also, these are handouts. There is no law being broken if the DoD asks for them back but I doubt they're doing that.

Well the video I posted talked about 1988.

 

[Humpy]

I'm not a conspiracy kinda guy, but I sometimes wonder what exactly they are preparing for by giving cops this kind of heavy firepower.

Unless a team capable of using the equipment is stationed at every school every day, the only thing they can possibly be preparing for is to show up after the fact and make things worse by overreacting.

 

[Dari]

Well the video I posted talked about 1988.

I'm asking for proof that it's being rolled back or stopped.

 

[lupi]

it's nothing more than an armored pickup, not sure what the concern is.

 

[Ns1]

it's nothing more than an armored pickup, not sure what the concern is.