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| Pat | Jun 27 2016, 12:26 AM Post #1 |
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Why Does the IRS Need Guns? After grabbing legal power, bureaucrats are amassing firepower. It’s time to scale back the federal arsenal. 2016-06-16_21-59-20 By TOM COBURN and ADAM ANDRZEJEWSKI June 16, 2016 6:46 p.m. ET Special agents at the IRS equipped with AR-15 military-style rifles? Health and Human Services "Special Office of Inspector General Agents" being trained by the Army’s Special Forces contractors? The Department of Veterans Affairs arming 3,700 employees? The number of non-Defense Department federal officers authorized to make arrests and carry firearms (200,000) now exceeds the number of U.S. Marines (182,000). In its escalating arms and ammo stockpiling, this federal arms race is unlike anything in history. Over the last 20 years, the number of these federal officers with arrest-and-firearm authority has nearly tripled to over 200,000 today, from 74,500 in 1996. What exactly is the Obama administration up to? On Friday, June 17, our organization, American Transparency, is releasing its OpenTheBooks.com oversight report on the militarization of America. The report catalogs federal purchases of guns, ammunition and military-style equipment by seemingly bureaucratic federal agencies. During a nine-year period through 2014, we found, 67 agencies unaffiliated with the Department of Defense spent $1.48 billion on guns and ammo. Of that total, $335.1 million was spent by agencies traditionally viewed as regulatory or administrative, such as the Smithsonian Institution and the U.S. Mint. Original Article Here |
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| Brewster | Jun 27 2016, 12:40 AM Post #2 |
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Why should the Government be the only Americans not allowed to be armed? |
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| colo_crawdad | Jun 27 2016, 12:41 AM Post #3 |
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Perhaps for the same reason the US right claims every citizen needs guns -- to protect themselves? |
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| Pat | Jun 27 2016, 12:42 AM Post #4 |
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Nobody in government, (unless they are a convicted felon or mentally ill) is prevented from owning an AR-15. This isn't Canada. |
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| colo_crawdad | Jun 27 2016, 12:46 AM Post #5 |
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So, why the question as the thread title? |
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| Brewster | Jun 27 2016, 12:47 AM Post #6 |
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So what was the point of your OP? It seems that you just shot your whole argument in the foot. |
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| Brewster | Jun 27 2016, 12:51 AM Post #7 |
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Why does it seem that so often Colo is the only member here who makes sense? |
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| Pat | Jun 27 2016, 01:00 AM Post #8 |
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Think this though Colo. When you were teaching, did you carry your guns with you on the job? |
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| Thumper | Jun 27 2016, 01:09 AM Post #9 |
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I had a couple of fish and game armed clowns stop, tie up to my dock and inspect my fishing license. I let them play their bad assedgame. Unbeknownst to them, I had them out gunned. The revenuers want to be bad assed also I reckon. |
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| Brewster | Jun 27 2016, 01:13 AM Post #10 |
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I don't believe it's Colo who needs to do the thinking, Pat. I see nothing in your OP that says the staff is going to be armed while working in the office. Upon second reading, it became apparent that just WHEN the guns would be used never came up. In fact, like virtually every other Right Wing piece that gets posted around here, there is not a feather's worth of information on why the guns were purchased, but several TONS of innuendo. In the meantime, paradoxically, you want to disarm government personnel who must go out into an increasingly heavily armed America. Nobody has guns, or everybody has guns - there is no in between. |
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