"tim gueguen" wrote in
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Most criminals know that shooting cops is a really BAD idea.

Yet around 150 are killed and 230 injured in the US every year
and
US
cops
are armed while British police typically are not.

I prefer things our way.


Your way didn't work too well in Northern Ireland.

You mean that place they sent the Army into.


Good point. The US Army certainly does not patrol my neighborhood,
city or state. No need to.

Because no part of the US has had a bunch of terrorist bombers running
around blowing things up for years. If say one of the militia groups
had engaged in a sustained and effect campaign of terror in Michigan
you'd see soldiers patrolling the street there as well. The US has
been fortunate that its terrorists have either been relatively limited
in their actual activities, or have proven ineffectual at anything
beyond simple crime, like the Order in the mid '80s. The US has never
had a terrorist group as operationally effective as the IRA or the Red
Brigades.

tim gueguen 101867




The US military is prohibited by LAW from operating inside the US.
(Posse Comitatus,IIRC)

Bsides,the police SWAT teams,FBI and BATF-troop are all very close to
military capabilities.Now the National Guard (considered today's militia)
could be deployed.
Although,IMO,they are merely part of the ordinary US military.
--
Jim Yanik
jyanik-at-kua.net