This is why I love American Thinker. Some damned fine reporting is below. Somebody actually sat down and thought it through: Why oh why do we need 2700 armored vehicles in the United States of America? (DHS just ordered them.  They still have that new, tank smell.) Putting aside the question of why on earth we need them at all, and just addressing the sheer size of the order;  maybe we’re just perceiving that number all wrong and maybe that’s what’s creeping us out? After all, America is one damned big country.  Maybe (just go with me here) 2700 isn’t enough rather than a seriously creepy too many?… Eh… Not so much.

Read this one paragraph below from the article “Armored Vehicles for DHS, Slingshots for You” and if this one paragraph doesn’t give you pause, you’re in the wrong place. Go swig some more kool-aid. I can’t help you here.

“According to 2011 Census data, the U.S. has nine cities with populations over one million, and twenty-five more with populations over half a million, but under a million. Let us assign thirty armored vehicles to each of the megacities, and fifteen to each city between half a million and a million. That would be 645 vehicles. Now, for each of the next forty-one cities, down to a quarter million citizens, let us designate ten vehicles, i.e., 410 altogether. That makes 1,055. For the smaller cities, down to a bare one hundred thousand (Broken Arrow, Oklahoma), let’s provide five each, or 1,050. That makes the total 2,105.”