And THAT is what I've been railing against some of these Ostrich-Americans for a while now.
Sheriffs aren't LEO's, they're POLITICIANS - and as such, they will promise you anything you want to hear, so long as you tell them what THEY want to hear; and all THEY want to hear is, "I'm voting for you, Sheriff"...
And these people actually think a finger-in-the-wind POLITICIAN is going to stand up for their rights? Why should they? Fedzilla is giving away free sh!t, like MRAP's and body armor. It merely comes with a price: when Fedzilla says so, they get to USE it.
That is the strange part. Most people around here, anyway, claim to be disengaged from politics because of the odor that accompanies politicians but they vote along party lines.
They refuse to consider an alternative.