Exactly. Over armed police = loss of rights. You all know what they say about history, and it repeating. Our forefathers understood this and created the second amendment so that the citizens of the US could stand up to tyrannical and overreaching government.

By giving local police forces tanks, MRAP's, rpg's, and other war munitions, you are giving the government more power over citizens. That is not what this country was founded on and succeeeded on. It succeeded because of individual liberty and freedom to succeed without government intervention.