| I think the usage of the word military to describe equipment is getting convoluted. I still have an old MILITARY 2 piece canvas tent(with the little poles and stakes) It's certainly ex-military but in terms of offensive capabilities I think you might be able to cripple and enemy due to laughing at you when you try to whack them with a tent pole piece. Give that to a police department and it's still considered Ex-Military. Canteens? Military too... In most situations a rifle is going to be able to penetrate through almost every part of a police/civilian vehicle. If someone is shooting at you the only proactive thing you can do to keep your self safe is to return fire to either take the enemy out of the fight or suppress them. If you have a vehicle that can stop small arms fire the immediate need to start shooting back is slowed down to a degree. They also make nice rolling barriers in case you need to move to someone that is injured with out the need for suppressing fire. Also psychologically it slows people down due to the fact that they will have less of a chance to be able to harm/pose a threat to police. On the other hand if they start using turret mounted automatic weapons such a MK19 then that's going to be a problem. When folks throw around escalation when bringing in an armored vehicle I in my mind I'm thinking the bad guy is going to get MAD due to having a harder time killing a police officer. I guess we can all take a vote with the knowledge that police get killed in the line of duty. Let's pretend we are all police here. Who want's to be the last cop killed before we achieve societal and world peace? |