What the media missed, and what concerns me, was what else was in the photos that were part of the story:
That's right, a Ma Deuce. What in the world does a police department need a belt fed, .50BMG machine gun for? Grazing fire? The police have become the standing army that the founders were so fearful of.
The only thing even remotely justifying that is that they are essentially in the drug cartel war zone. The cartels have them. Maybe they're just above where the majority of the action is, but Tucson is pretty close to the border.
ReplyDeleteIf Phoenix is the #1 or #2 city in the world for kidnappings, you know the cartels reach up past Tucson.