That link showed the police forces with this eqpt; the article I posted above speaks only to colleges getting them.
COLLEGES, Libertas.
WTF, over.
You yellin' at me, sister?
Yeah, OK, Campus PoPo not on par with regular PoPo, but still PoPo. But if anything this is worse, Campus PoPo are notorious for low-standards...the odds of somebody going too far is a lot higher with these clowns who are not much better than rent-a-cops than with the poorly trained average city PoPo, most of whom are walking fusterclucks. It is not even remotely impossible for these idiots to be easily infiltrated by somebody like the New Black Panthers, and could be another control being put into place to pacify the populace should martial law be declared.
And I get the college angle, many are public, many are private, why should they get to have access to stuff other private citizens are banned from owning? What gives them any right to have crap like this? And I would argue why any city police should have it too! The rule of law in this nation is dead, the constitution is all but run through the shredder. If others in and out of government do not respect the law, wtf do we give a shyt?
Martial Law/Order 66 is coming. I say load up on what you can, even (especially!) if the Fedcoats say it is illegal!!!