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US uniformed police services started out as ethnic gangs made into paramilitary forces to suppress other ethnic gangs in the urban north and slave patrols in the rural south. The problem does not have its roots in recent militarization, and has been constant for the whole history of police forces in this country.

Shifting political preferences among the enfranchised have caused it to be a source of greater tension in the electorate, and changes in media have made it more visible, but it's not a new problem.

> Also i thought the point of the 2nd amendment was so you could rise up and overthrow a tyrannical government

The point of the 2nd Amendment was so that the people could be the security services and there would not be a need for standing military and paramilitary external and internal services (beyond small cadres to form a nucleus for the mobilized militia) which, in the founders view, inevitably led to tyranny. It was for prevention on a model that was abandoned though the amendment remains, not for response.