11-14-2016, 01:49 PM
(11-14-2016, 01:38 PM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: Maybe with proper messaging, even these can be good reminders. I don't like seeing guns or military items on display because it feels like glorifying combat.
I do follow politics enough to know that in Parliament with the speaker, there is a mace, meant to show order and rule-following, but indeed it is a mace, a weapon. If things like this LAV are shown in ways that suggest "we are glad to retire this and its children from use", that's one thing. It's a bit harder when it looks like it could rightly just drive off into a battle any second.
I do agree. But Armed Forces gifting these for monuments is still a whole lot better than gifting them to local police departments. (And that is routinely done in, ahem, some other countries.)