“I can’t imagine any use for bayonets in an urban setting,” stated Sen. Rand Paul to Senate Homeland Security Committee at a hearing last year.
“I can’t answer what a local police force would use a bayonet for,” Alan Estevez said.
Paul snapped back “None”
Rand Paul is completely correct, of course, that there is no need for bayonets in local law enforcement. Bayonets are for hand-to-hand combat in battle and the only purpose is to kill.
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Ou government?? For the people?
I guess a 300000 mrap is needed when you have less than 4000 people in a hick town with no murders also.
With all the muslim extremest terrorists entering the USA, the police might need these to help caatch and fight the terrorists
We are going to need help fighting all the terrorists Obama has let into our country once they start attacking us. lets not assume the police are going to use this on Americans.
I don’t know$#%&!@*so I’m going to tell people what they need to do. You (Wesley), can’t speak for everyone with your real life experience. No experience Trumps all. No pun intended. New right wing logic
Take a course? why would I just randomly stab someone? They would have to break into my house or something along the lines of. I know sarcasm is I hard thing to achieve online and you two obviously missed the point….
When you are out of bullets, it is the weapon you have left !
I’ve never had a gun to my head from a terrorist but I had an assault weapon at my head for a quarter of marijuana. Are we sure we know who the terrorists actually are?
BS on this “police force of a big city” c**p. is absolutely no need for any militarized gear for police in any city. Crime is at an all time low and the one way to keep it going lower is to arm citizens with plain old guns. This MRAP and SWAT gear has already been investigated by Law Enforcement journals as to contributing to violence and not protecting any against the violence. Some exmilitary who were regular soldiers, pose as former special forces and they create contractor companies to “consult” it amounts to little boys playing soldier. All jockey up and ready to give someone a hard time to use the gear. Nowadays, everyone is or was special forces, seals, pjs, you name it.
The only reason the Feds are handing this c**p out is so they can instigate and carry out a martial law scenario.
Imagine any cop having a bayonet and ding dongs on this thread trying to justify it.
Police know all the criminals in their jurisdiction. They know who they are and where they hang out. It’s the CJ system that keeps the criminals on the street. That and the drug trade that brings the government and people like the Bushes and Clintons hundreds of millions of $$.
Bayonets for cops, give me a break. How about flamethrower and bazookas too.
The only time a policeman would need a bayonet is when his weapon is out of ammo —
Changing to a full mag would be the smarter move–