Military and Police joint training

[RuralEngineer]

Anyone have any logical arguments for why the military and police are performing joint training exercises that involve firing machine guns from helicopters inside U.S. cities?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri9ioCbqJCU&sns=fb

[Pointedstick]

Because police want to feel really cool pretending to be soldiers with all the awesome soldier stuff, and they gotta spend all that DHS money on something?

[Benko]

Can't be anything important, if they were going to do anything that stupid they'd first have to make sure citizens didn't have any guns...oh wait.

[Kriegsspiel]

Holy shit... I can't think of a better way to totally freak out the populace than to just spring a training exercise on them!

[TripleB]

Well if it will keep our kids safer, I'm all for it! 

That's actually something a person said living in one of these training areas last week, who was interviewed about it.

[Pointedstick]

Here's what the police in California think:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1fhw_O ... be&t=6m30s

[MediumTex]

I assume they were using black helicopters for these exercises.

[RuralEngineer]

Dear lord, the idiocy.  "A gun is not a defensive weapon. A gun is an offensive weapon used to intimidate and show power.  Police officers do not carry a gun for defensive purposes, they carry a gun to perform their job in a safe and effective manner and deal with any opposition they may encounter."

The quote might not be word for word, but I've never heard someone contradict themselves within a singe sentence like that.  Do cops have to pass some kind of basic IQ test before they're turned loose?  If not, it needs to be a requirement.

Thanks for the clip, PS.  I'd say that it made me more resolved to never move to California, but that's not really possible.  Also, idiots are a global infestation.

[Pointedstick]

The quote might not be word for word, but I've never heard someone contradict themselves within a singe sentence like that.  Do cops have to pass some kind of basic IQ test before they're turned loose?  If not, it needs to be a requirement.

Thanks for the clip, PS.  I'd say that it made me more resolved to never move to California, but that's not really possible.  Also, idiots are a global infestation.

This is what we're dealing with: idiots that make laws on subjects about which they are utterly ignorant. Earlier in the clip, some lady explains how a bullet button makes a semi-automatic gun fully-automatic. (in reality, a bullet button is a replacement mag catch that's less useful than the original in every way and is only used to satisfy a legal requirement). They describe the effect of hollow-point bullets as a bomb exploding. It's like they get all their information from Arnold Schwarzenegger movies.