Slightly tangential, but Ted Dziuba makes a good case for gun control for these over-armed local police forces in this post http://teddziuba.com/post/3796112728

Slightly tangential, but Ted Dziuba makes a good case for gun control for these over-armed local police forces in this post http://teddziuba.com/post/37961127287/i-am-a-gun-owner-lets-talk-gun-control http://teddziuba.com/post/37961127287/i-am-a-gun-owner-lets-... Police forces seem to be totally exempt from, say, the ban on assault weapons or such in some of the States. Possibly a law that limits the weaponry that police forces can carry along with a reduction in civilian-owned guns might help curb some of these incidents involving trigger-happy cops.