How’s this make you feel?
There are more federal government employees with guns in the USA than there are United States Marine Corps members.
From the Free Beacon:
There are now more non-military government employees who carry guns than there are U.S. Marines, according to a new report.
Open the Books, a taxpayer watchdog group, released a study Wednesday that finds domestic government agencies continue to grow their stockpiles of military-style weapons, as Democrats sat on the House floor calling for more restrictions on what guns American citizens can buy.
The “Militarization of America” report found civilian agencies spent $1.48 billion on guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment between 2006 and 2014. Examples include IRS agents with AR-15s, and EPA bureaucrats wearing camouflage.
“Regulatory enforcement within administrative agencies now carries the might of military-style equipment and weapons,” Open the Books said. “For example, the Food and Drug Administration includes 183 armed ‘special agents,’ a 50 percent increase over the ten years from 1998-2008. At Health and Human Services (HHS), ‘Special Office of Inspector General Agents’ are now trained with sophisticated weaponry by the same contractors who train our military special forces troops.”
Open the Books found there are now over 200,000 non-military federal officers with arrest and firearm authority, surpassing the 182,100 personnel who are actively serving in the U.S. Marines Corps.
Meanwhile, far left gun-hating Democrats have a temper tantrum on the US House floor demanding the government strip Constitutional rights from Americans on secret lists.
… well, except that McCarty was right.
I concur on Joseph McCarthy. I think the left hates then because he worked hard to expose the communists/liberals in Hollywood.
America was a lot better place in that time.
As for these dimwit idiots elected by gerrymandered districts… put them on Guam. There’s no risk that their lightweight minds would tip that island over.
Thank God for background checks. They keep Obama from forming his own Brownshirt army of thugs.
Obama would LOVE to make his own army of brownshirt thugs to terrorize America.
That’s how they are going to get MicHELL’S school lunch program to work. HOLD A GUN ON THEM TO MAKE THEM EAT IT.
My question is do they out number the armed patriots/militias in this country? I fear what the future holds when you learn of things like this. Why are we allowing this mission creep to happen? I wonder how much longer will it be before we live like they do in China or North Korea.