Yeah, remember a few years ago when a bunch of us FReepers hated the idea of 0bama militarizing local police and County Sheriff’s departments enough that us making our concerns known to our rulers, got him to back off on it?
But now, since it is Trump doing it, it is all ‘hunky dory’.
As much as a lot of us might temporarily enjoy seeeing local police go after Antifa and the other leftist terrorist organizations with armored vehicles and machine guns, that schadenfreude wouldn’t last long, when we realize that the feds now ‘own’ our local law enforcement, and we are more likely going to be victims of a militarized police force than are our leftist enemies.
I see it also as a response to the fact that criminals have easier access to high powered weapons. In essence it becomes an “arms race”.