{"id":2495,"date":"2013-03-06T02:25:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/03\/06\/comment-of-day-15\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:21:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:21:11","slug":"comment-of-day-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2495","title":{"rendered":"Comment Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14111,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.investors.com\\\/ibd-editorials\\\/030513-646857-dhs-buys-special-armored-fighting-vehicles.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/news.investors.com\\\/ibd-editorials\\\/030513-646857-dhs-buys-special-armored-fighting-vehicles.htm&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nIn an editorial published this evening, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.investors.com\/ibd-editorials\/030513-646857-dhs-buys-special-armored-fighting-vehicles.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Investor&#8217;s Business Daily is rightly questioning the purchase of over 2,700 armored vehicles &#8211; MRAPs &#8211; by the Department of Homeland Security.<\/a> They note that these vehicles were designed to resist mines and ambush attacks in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>So how does DHS say they plan to use these vehicles?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>A DHS officer, Robert Whitaker, stationed in El Paso, Texas, recently proudly described the agency&#8217;s new armored toy as &#8220;Mine-resistant &#8230; we use to deliver our team to high-risk warrant services &#8230; (with) gun ports so we can actually shoot from within the vehicle; you may think it&#8217;s pretty loud but actually it&#8217;s not too bad &#8230; we have gun ports there in the back and two on the sides as well. They are designed for .50-caliber weapons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is needed to serve warrants? <b>Perhaps it might have been useful at Waco.<\/b><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an editorial published this evening, Investor&#8217;s Business Daily is rightly questioning the purchase of over 2,700 armored vehicles&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2822,2591],"class_list":["post-2495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-department-of-homeland-security","tag-investors-business-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8911,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions\/8911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}