Only the police and military need guns.
What is a tax-collection agency doing investigating crimes? Wasn't the FBI in charge?
And as for Waco, that was a manager's call looking to impress Washington. Not the agents who got chewed up by the stupidity. I talked to the FBI Swat who responded for the seige. It was more Dessert 1 cluster than evil empire.
"I vas only followink orders!" (And if this was the work of one bad manager, why did the agency lie and cover up, instead of imprisoning - or at least dismissing the scapegoat?)
They enforce the laws given them by congress the same way any cop enforces the laws on the books...
...Stomping on kittens, committing perjury to gain a conviction, planting evidence, and putting people in jail for 10 years for failing to pay a $200 tax.
I remember the agents wearing the ATF jackets at the Oklahoma federal building...
I remember hearing how the ATF agents who worked in the Murrah building were suspiciously absent the day of the blast. But that's only a rumor about our heroes in black kevlar, the standing army our founders feared.
Only the police and military need guns.
You took the words right out of My mouth (and was much nicer that I would have been)