To pick up a tax form at a privately owned building in which the IRS has its local office, I have to go through a metal detector and past armed guards. That shows there is a perception of danger for the bureaucrats.
Those federal bureaucrats and our state bureaucrats are not in favor of we citizens having similar protection in our private lives. We citizens are always one vote away from laws ending our right of self protection. Be vigilant.
They live in government built fortresses where there is absolutely no immediate fear of the people on the part of the bureaucrats. They do have an abstract concern about what might happen -- kind of like you have the knowledge in the back of your mind that when you step off a curb you could get hit by a bus but it is not enough to stop you from stepping off curbs.
This is the problem with giving these people power. They know they are well protected and can operate with impunity. They can even destroy people with their power and no one can touch them even if they do something illegal. Their fellows will close ranks around them and someone that has the gall to complain had better be prepared to give their life in the struggle because the agency wiseguys will come down on them like Michael Moore on a stack of pancakes.