Except the cartels are that armed to fight EACH OTHER. And they own the cops and the military. We don’t need armed cops to fight them like in a gang war. You want to beat drug cartels, take the money. And no the LA thing wasn’t about getting assault rifles from the local gun shops, the basically let the bad guys run out of ammo, and hit them in unarmored parts of their body. And it’s worth nothing the robbers were the only 2 people in that whole thing that died. And we’ve never had another incident like that again anywhere in the country. Hardly a reason for police to become military units all over the country.
Wrong. Yes thy did run out ammo but in order to contain the robbers the police needed weapons in order to carry this out. Cartels intimidate by using force. Law enforcement must have the weapons to counter the firepower of the cartels. In our country we expect law enforcement to take on criminals. Thus they need units that can do that.