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cops have no duty to protect/defend individuals, their duty is only to enforce the laws.It's a two edged sword. People want cops to be fully armed and ready to defend them, but don't want them armed to the point of being a terror to the people.
2A says that we the people have the right to defend ourselves with every means available from enemies, INCLUDING the government, as an unorganized militia...that means if a citizen wish to purchase with their own money, an armored vehicle, then that is their right...regardless of how much the government dislike giving up their monopoly on weapons...If we accept that the anti-gun types are right, and there are bad guys out there with full auto firearms, it makes sense for the cops to be so armed. If the bad guys are running fully up-armored vehicles, anti-tank missiles and all the weapons of war, yes, by all means, arm the cops to deal with that threat.
Absent the weapons of war, however, I would say giving cops heavily armored vehicles is overkill... Hopefully not real overkill, but we never know.
well. I for one would prefer a model similar to Sweden or Israel; in which every citizen has training and access to equipment the same as the military....in which, I would rather that citizens be given armored vehicles for defense against criminals.... instead of militarizing the police to the level that it's hard to tell if they're police or if they're military.