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Originally posted by Claeren@Jul 16 2005, 02:51 PM
I always find the machine guns comical (from experience in NYC). Are terrorists really scared of those big guns? No 'terrorist' has EVER been confronted directly in a first world nation with a fully automatic machine gun to my knowledge, let alone been killed by one.
Bomb sniffer dogs, undercover cops, xray and metal detecting machines, and random searches all seem FAR more effective. Every dollar spent on heavy weapons is a dollar not spent on other forms of protection.
Claeren.
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They're not machine guns. They are almost always simply a shotgun or an automatic rifle.
What the tax dollars go toward are the appearance of an armed force as a a deterrent from entering an area and doing something that would be conspicuous.
But it's true, armed police officers can't stop a guy with a bomb in his backback.