Oh, thanks for posting this. Coming from a country where only the military and a few police are armed, the concept of armed meteorologists was quite something.

Oh, thanks for posting this. Coming from a country where only the military and a few police are armed, the concept of armed meteorologists was quite something. I thought this might have been in response to the Weathermen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground)