11-14-2016, 03:44 PM
(11-14-2016, 01:49 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(11-14-2016, 01:38 PM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: Maybe with proper messaging, even these can be good reminders. I don't like seeing guns or military items on display because it feels like glorifying combat.
I do follow politics enough to know that in Parliament with the speaker, there is a mace, meant to show order and rule-following, but indeed it is a mace, a weapon. If things like this LAV are shown in ways that suggest "we are glad to retire this and its children from use", that's one thing. It's a bit harder when it looks like it could rightly just drive off into a battle any second.
I do agree. But Armed Forces gifting these for monuments is still a whole lot better than gifting them to local police departments. (And that is routinely done in, ahem, some other countries.)
That happens in this country too, Windsor got an old APC of some sort for a dollar, and other PD have heavy army vehicles albeit they aren't equipped with guns or anything.