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- The Missouri Highway Patrol sent an armored personnel carrier to Ferguson, but some counties around the country received their own for free from the federal government.
Let’s look beyond a story and see what we can find.
I learned from the Times that if you ever get out of line in Hartford County, Connecticut, the powers that be are prepared to set you straight with M-79 grenade launchers; in Benton County, Arkansas, a mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicle will encourage you to mend your ways. Meanwhile, Richland County, South Carolina, has its very own M113 armored personnel carrier.
No conclusions should be drawn from the Times chart. It exists only to provide examples. This map that the Times has posted online shows that there are few counties in America that have not hit the Pentagon up for arms—including many certain that the greatest threat to local liberties is Washington itself.
