I just come across the article FEMA suspends Phoenix’s rescue team over firearms rule and I have to say that I can’t believe how ungrateful and just ignorant FEMA is. To ask these search and rescue teams to go into conditions such as those seen in New Orleans this past month and then to get their feathers ruffled because a team took some security? I can’t believe that FEMA honestly wants these search and rescue teams to go into these areas unarmed!
“Phoenix officials are threatening to refuse deployments in the future or possibly pull out of the federal agency altogether unless the rules are changed to allow teams to bring their own security, even if that means police with guns.”
I’ve read a handful of articles this morning on the topic and I must say that I’m with Phoenix on this one. If FEMA can’t see the logic of allowing a team to take armed escorts (U.S. Marshals no less!!) then why even deal with FEMA? Tell the bureaucrats to give off their arse and go pluck people from roof tops themselves.
Sound off folks, let me know you’re out there.
