These guys are scum. It was to test the defenses.
“It was to test the defenses.”
You’d better believe it - and they will not stop until they are stopped.
To be specific, Lisa Jackson is doing whatever her boss (the Head Scum In Charge) tells her to do. All executive branch agencies reflect the policies of the President, good or bad, wise or foolish. Jackson, though, is the most drone-like example of this to come along in a long time.
I'm sure that the feedback they've been receiving has been a bit, shall we say... terse. Probably to the point where somebody called Federal Protective Service to report a threat, which prompted FPS to sit down with EPA and tell them "Remember, we can only protect you on federal property..."
Oh, possibly. They're scum, but this could have been completely oblivious Obama Administration ignorance.
Since the EPA was set to rule on this the day before the November elections, I can't believe that this was intentional on behalf of the EPA unless we have one of our guys in RKBA who set the Obama administration up.
Ban all bullets the day before the November elections? Who in the White House thought that was a brilliant idea? Couldn't be. They're stupid, but not THAT stupid.
In fact, the whole reason that the EPA came out today and said that this was off the table was surely from some liberal in a very high place calling the EPA and screaming "ARE YOU INSANE?!" at the top of their lungs.
That's my guess.