“I can’t imagine any use for bayonets in an urban setting,” stated Sen. Rand Paul to Senate Homeland Security Committee at a hearing last year.
“I can’t answer what a local police force would use a bayonet for,” Alan Estevez said.
Paul snapped back “None”
Rand Paul is completely correct, of course, that there is no need for bayonets in local law enforcement. Bayonets are for hand-to-hand combat in battle and the only purpose is to kill.
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Facing a terrorist with a knife, that bayonet will come in handy as it keeps the enemy at arms length…great when one is fighting for his life!
just in case they run out of bullets
To put down injured deer that they shouldn’t shoot because of possible riccocets?
Isis is the cia…
Guess they need them to go after the movie pirates they are trying to catch, because it isnt anything to do with protecting US Citizens
Why do they need MRAPS Machine Guns and Explosives?Going to war with Americans maybe ?
nothing funny about this…or the billions of hollow-point bullets that FEMA just bought…or why there is so much military equipment being strategically placed around our country. I have never been so worried.
And in the history of the world the last recorded bayonet charge by the police was……?
I totally. agree. The weaponization of police forces as well as IRS workers has gotten totally out of control. Why would IRS workers even need to be armed?
You really don’t know the answer to that? come on use your imagination.