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When Your W-2 Meets an AR-15
National Review ^ | 6/13/2013 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 06/13/2013 5:19:19 AM PDT by markomalley

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1 posted on 06/13/2013 5:19:19 AM PDT by markomalley
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Forgive a suspicious nature, but one would almost think that ALL federal employees are gearing up for a war on...

who, precisely?

Probably not China, probably not Russia, and probably not even Moslem terrorists, so that leaves.... us?


2 posted on 06/13/2013 5:22:01 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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To: markomalley

Those aren’t AR-15s. They’re machine guns.


3 posted on 06/13/2013 5:25:36 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Universal Background Check -> Registration -> Confiscation -> Oppression -> Extermination)
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To: markomalley

IRS agents should be restricted to meeting us nekkid in the public mud pits, armed only with sharp pencils!


4 posted on 06/13/2013 5:25:48 AM PDT by muawiyah (Git yer Red STATE Arm Bands here - $29.95 - NOT SOLD IN STORES - TAX FREE)
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To: Atlas Sneezed

Only in Maryland and New York.


5 posted on 06/13/2013 5:26:21 AM PDT by muawiyah (Git yer Red STATE Arm Bands here - $29.95 - NOT SOLD IN STORES - TAX FREE)
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To: Jack Hammer

Something I’ve noticed as well. Obama’s got something in the hopper.


6 posted on 06/13/2013 5:27:08 AM PDT by Thane_Banquo ( Walker 2016)
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To: markomalley

This is part of an ongoing trend to militarize the bureacracy. During the KKKlinton years they started arming EPA agents.


7 posted on 06/13/2013 5:31:25 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Obama being re-elected is the political equivalent of OJ being found not guilty.)
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To: Jack Hammer

There was a time when FBI agents went toe to toe with the Nazi’s in South America in an undeclared war; when DEA Agents virtually invaded areas of Colombia and surrounding areas in the drug wars, and when some agents literally battled organizaed crime guys in the streets during prohibition. Today, we don’t see that as much with the civilian forces, frankly, we even arm our border police with bean bag guns and weaponize the border crossers. So, on one hand where the uses of weaponry is being diminished, we are now heavily arming more agents with a capability beyond their apparent needs? Makes no sense to me. I recall my early days as a street agent armed with nothing more than a 2” detective special later replaced with a Smith model 19. Seemed ok for our use as we were not battling an invading army of chicoms. We kept an office inventory of about 1000 rds for agents which covered use, qualification and practice. Today it seems agents are armed with semi auto and full auto shoulder weapons, semi auto pistols, and one agency has something like 1.6 billion rounds available for about 30,000 agents. What gives? We expecting an invasion of UFOs? Obvious to me, this is becoming more a land of the government verses the people then government by the people.


8 posted on 06/13/2013 5:38:10 AM PDT by Mouton (108th MI Group.....68-71)
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To: markomalley

Those geeks can train all day, but I’ll bet they can’t reach out 300 yards.


9 posted on 06/13/2013 5:38:13 AM PDT by G Larry (Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
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To: Thane_Banquo

> Something I’ve noticed as well. Obama’s got something in the hopper.

Or trying to give the impression that he us gearing up against citizens as a orm of intimidation.


10 posted on 06/13/2013 5:42:16 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: G Larry

600+ with M1A1 .308. Never know what hit them!


11 posted on 06/13/2013 5:42:45 AM PDT by Renegade
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To: markomalley

The first socialist in the White House nationalized gold.
This one wants our IRA’s.

There will be war.


12 posted on 06/13/2013 5:49:19 AM PDT by hadaclueonce (dont worry about Mexico, put the fence around kalifornia.)
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We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.
- Barack Hussein Obama, July 2, 2008

It looks like the petty tyrant in our White House is fundamentally transforming America, providing the "change" he promised, and moving "forward", as promised. Who says that compulsive liars never tell the truth?

13 posted on 06/13/2013 5:53:47 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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Tax collectors with assault weapons. I wonder if they’ll be carrying grenades too.


14 posted on 06/13/2013 5:55:44 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (23,116,441 households on Food Stamps! Now that's what I call HISTORICAL!!!)
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To: markomalley

So, ALL of those 5 MILLION bullets that the government is buying is for the IRS to use on us!!! OMG!! We are in Deeper trouble than I thought!!


15 posted on 06/13/2013 6:07:14 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Jack Hammer
Forgive a suspicious nature, but one would almost think that ALL federal employees are gearing up for a war on...

It does seem as if there's a pattern.

16 posted on 06/13/2013 6:08:59 AM PDT by schm0e ("we are in the midst of a coup.")
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To: markomalley
Abolish the IRS. And no personal Delta Force for itsand permit no successor.
17 posted on 06/13/2013 6:11:57 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economiws In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: schm0e

Generic government “workers” at all levels know that everyone else despises them. They know what may happen.


18 posted on 06/13/2013 6:14:25 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Mouton

I’ll admit to being quite prejudiced, but when a guy who isn’t military wants to dream about “taking on the Bad Guys,” he gears up with a semi-auto with a fifteen round mag and two extra mags; an M-4, and maybe a 12 guage.

When a guy knows what it’s all about, and knows he can handle it, he gets himself a S&W Chief’s Special.

But, like I said, I’m wildly prejudiced.

The upshot being that it’s clear to me, at least, that there are countless imbeciles in the government who believe they’re very soon going up against Genghis Khan and his Golden Horde.

Or perhaps against the entire civilian population of the United States....?


19 posted on 06/13/2013 6:15:59 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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To: markomalley

Forgive a possibly stupid question from someone who grew up in a state which doesn’t respect the 2nd amendment:
What is “stand-off capability”?


20 posted on 06/13/2013 6:16:47 AM PDT by dangus (Poverty cannot be eradicated as long as the poor remain dependent on the state - Pope Francis)
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