“This is not about militarizing the Boston Police Department. This is about realism. This is about giving police the firepower they need when they and the public are at the mercy of someone with high-powered weapons, which any nut or terrorist can buy, which, incidentally, is a subject far more important than whether cops have too many weapons.” – Kevin Cullen in Worries about militarizing police are misplaced [via bostonglobe.com]