Today communities demand former SEAL and scout sniper police officers with the best gear and training to go in and save the day when there's a school shooter.........but also want a revolver totting chubby Norm Rockwell-painting Officer Barney Fife the rest of the time.
I never wanted Seal teams and snipers. I want Barney Fife!!! Barney Fife! Barney Fife! chant it. But then I only have a vote not enough money to buy up the politicians so it hardly matters what I want, the DOD is giving them free tanks and all I have is a worthless vote. NOT IN MY NAME. The whole Seal teams and snipers, maybe someone wants that maybe noone does, I think that was mostly the result of the drug war which doesn't strike me as ever being entirely a bottom up movement. I've always been of the opinion that @#$# happens and trying to prevent it 100% is the height of folly. That doesn't mean nothing can ever be improved, I generally think it can, but people think they're going to prevent all terrorism or all crime or something - it can not be done.