In a recent Op Ed. piece in the Wall Street Journal, Tom Coburn and Adam Andrezejewski opine about the amount of military assault weapons issued to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and other agencies.
The article talked about the billions spent by our non-defense government agencies to purchase military style weapons and ammunition to potentially use against its own citizens. The numbers were staggering (and not in a good way). It is hard to believe that the SSA requires assault weapons for almost a thousand employees to use against mostly senior citizens, disabled Americans and children of deceased workers.
Where is the outrage?! How can any administration justify using assault weapons against its own citizens? It is travesty for our president to rail against citizens possessing weapons when the Constitution gives them a right to own, while the same President supplies such weapons to the Department of Health Human Services. For the record, the Department of Health Human Services spent almost $122 million on arming itself to protect itself from us. Apparently the militarization of the Health, Human Service Department started in the waning days of the Bush administration, but has been ramped up substantially by the Obama administration.
It seems quite hypocritical for President Obama to seek through executive order to disarm the American public using Social Security benefit recipients to find people who should not own a gun, yet at the same time arming that agency and many other non-defense agencies with military grade weapons to use on for potential use on the public. Do we really want the possibility of witnessing on the evening news Social Security or VA rolling down the streets of any US municipality in armored vehicles gunning down Americans? How can that possibly make sense? We did not do this during the Watts riots, or any other riot, and we have had many in our history. Do we want to start that precedent today?
Do we really want our Government buildings to resemble the war zones of Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan where similar weapons have been used to devastating effect? Does it make any sense for Social Security employees to carry assault weapons? When did our government view itself so removed from the people they represent that the idea of assault weapons to readily use on Social Security recipients or Veterans was a good idea? Never before, did an American president deem it necessary to arm these agencies with armored vehicles! Where will this stop? Are we going down the road where in a few years we will resemble the dystopias we view in the movies such as the “Hunger Games, Maze Runner or Divergent?“
https://oig.ssa.gov/newsroom/blog/2012/07/violence-massachusetts-ssa-office
http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-does-the-irs-need-guns-1466117176
https://www.openthebooks.com/assets/1/7/Oversight_TheMilitarizationOfAmerica_06102016.pdf
