Good point. And after a few agents of the government die they will then have ample excuse, complete with live news footage, to escalate the crackdown.
I can easily see this becoming a government provocation used as a publicity campaign waged against evil gun owners. The public may see a few gun battles, dead government overlords, perhaps an innocent civilian, and then decide that all gun owners are evil Tea Party outlaws and then support gun confiscation because no one is responsible to own guns except the government overlords who are there to merely “protect” everyone... until all the guns are confiscated.
Calif. may speed inmate releases to ease crowding
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—California may speed up the release of some inmates while allowing other inmates with a violent history to become firefighters, under a proposal to cut crowding in state prisons filed by Gov. Jerry Brown late Thursday night. Brown filed the plan "under protest," said Corrections Secretary Jeffrey Beard. Brown warned that the options he presented to the court would undermine public safety, and Beard reiterated that the state plans to appeal in an attempt to avoid going through with the measures.