Bullet Shortages Hurting Police Training

A Shortage of National Guard troops was a major factor making the Katrina hurricane such a terrible event. Most of those troops needed to help with the disaster were in Iraq. Now the War is impacting upon law enforcement. Bush's obsession with keeping his conquest in the Middle East is having all kinds of destructive side effects on the home front. For this reason alone, there must a greater urgency to bring the troops home to where they are needed. Like helping with the next natural disaster:

Troops training for and fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are firing more than 1 billion bullets a year, contributing to ammunition shortages hitting police departments nationwide and preventing some officers from training with the weapons they carry on patrol.

An Associated Press review of dozens of police and sheriff's departments found that many are struggling with delays of as long as a year for both handgun and rifle ammunition. And the shortages are resulting in prices as much as double what departments were paying just a year ago.