FBI: Arm Boston Police With Assault Rifles

[thinkliberty]

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/20451561/detail.html

Warren Bamford, the special agent in charge of the FBI in Boston, said Tuesday that he is baffled by opposition to a proposal to give some neighborhood police officers the semiautomatic weapons.

I remember Kent State:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

Bad things happen when the state has machine guns and Boston Cops are notoriously corrupt. (working for the mob, drug rings, etc.)

[UOGSammich]

this is the best they could come up with in preparation for a "terrorist attack"?


I guess those "terror-alert meters" on fox news every morning really do keep people worried.... we better buy some m16s guys

[Ogre]

Perhaps they're just scared of the number of people they are realizing who are already armed in opposition to them.

[KBCraig]

Please. Boston Police can't even be trusted with paintball guns.