{"id":85736,"date":"2023-08-18T08:49:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T13:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85736"},"modified":"2023-08-18T08:57:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T13:57:07","slug":"the-experts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85736","title":{"rendered":"The Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Civilians shouldn&#8217;t have guns.  Leave it to the experts&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A special agent is dead, according to IRS officials, following an incident that happened during a training exercise at a firing range in Phoenix.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cA7IGuIYpB\">https:\/\/t.co\/cA7IGuIYpB<\/a><\/p>&mdash; FOX 10 Phoenix (@FOX10Phoenix) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOX10Phoenix\/status\/1692327105705500952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some people are asking &#8220;why are IRS agents shooting?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those people would probably be a little alarmed to know that the Departments of Energy, Education, Interior, even HHS, have armed agents, and even access to &#8220;SWAT&#8221; teams.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had an avocational acquaintance once upon a time who worked for the Department of Justice.  He was a nice enough guy &#8211; and a preeningly arrogant old-school east coast liberal Democrat who&#8217;d gone to an Ivy League school and grad school as a third-generation legacy.   His contempt for the law-abiding citizen&#8217;s right to keep and bear arms was legendary.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But he went to a session the BATFE threw at a government shooting range, to orient Federal employees to various kinds of firearms.  He spent a day at the range, firing a bunch of handguns and a Heckler and Koch MP5 submachine gun, under (purportedly, given the story above) close supervision from the BATFE agents involved.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, <em>voila<\/em>, he considered himself one of the chosen people with the secret handshake that <em>should <\/em>be allowed to be armed.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because he&#8217;d &#8220;had training&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike all of us <em>hoi polloi<\/em> who&#8217;d been plinking away for decades, naturally. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Civilians shouldn&#8217;t have guns. Leave it to the experts&#8221;. Some people are asking &#8220;why are IRS agents shooting?&#8221; Those people would probably be a little alarmed to know that the Departments of Energy, Education, Interior, even HHS, have armed agents, and even access to &#8220;SWAT&#8221; teams. I had an avocational acquaintance once upon a time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85740,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85736\/revisions\/85740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}