Sen. Tom Coburn from Oklahoma perhaps said it best.

"There is no role in for the federal government in local and state police forces in our country," the Republican said, during a recent hearing, the "Oversight of Federal Programs for Equipping State and Local Law Enforcement," of the full Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Interestingly, his comments were followed minutes later by a statement from his Democratic colleague Sen. Claire McCaskill.

"I am confident militarized [police] tactics are not consistent with the First Amendment rights of free speech and free assembly," she said, reminding how Ferguson, Missouri, streets were recently overwhelmed with camo-dressed police carrying military-grade weapons and riding atop an armored vehicle. And one more point the Missouri Democrat raised: Florida police departments, for example, maintain among their equipment stocks dozens of MRAPs, or mine-resistant, ambush protected vehicles. But Florida's National Guard?

None, she said.

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