The more guns, the less crime.
But America’s federal bureaucracy is
overdoing its weaponry. The U.S. Government Accountability Office reports that from
2010 to 2017, twenty, non-military, “law enforcement” agencies spent at least
$38.8 million on firearms, $325.9 million on ammunition, and $1.14 billion on
tactical equipment.
By 2017, the IRS had 4,487 guns, including
15 fully automatic machine guns and 5.1 million rounds of ammunition. Machine
guns, of course, are essential when you’re auditing taxpayers.
The Health and Human Services Office of
the Inspector General had 194 fully automatic firearms and 386,952 rounds of
ammo. Inspector generalship is always dangerous.
The EPA had 377 pistols with 220,418
pistol rounds and 223 shotguns with 146,975 shotgun rounds. Those dirty
polluters, you gotta watch ‘em every minute.
The FDA had 390 pistols with 166,783
pistol rounds and 122 shotguns with 30,620 shotgun rounds. Inspecting meat and
researching drugs is impossible without being armed.
Yes, the weapons are critical: The deplorables
may launch an attack any day now.
You remember the stirring end of the Gettysburg
Address: “We highly resolve that government of the bureaucrats, by the bureaucrats,
and for the bureaucrats shall not perish from the earth.”
Well that’s what Lincoln said, wasn’t it?
