{"id":17547,"date":"2010-02-19T06:16:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T11:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=17547"},"modified":"2010-02-19T09:10:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T14:10:16","slug":"oh-yeah-i-feel-safer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17547","title":{"rendered":"Oh, yeah, I feel safer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rurik sends this article about the competency<\/a> of the people who are protecting us – apparently they’re arming our criminals, too;<\/p>\n

Nearly 180 Department of Homeland Security weapons were lost — some falling into the hands of criminals — after officers left them in restrooms, vehicles and other public places, according to an inspector general report.<\/p>\n

The officers, with Customs and Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, “did not always sufficiently safeguard their firearms and, as a result, lost a significant number of firearms” between fiscal year 2006 and fiscal year 2008, the report said.<\/p>\n

In all, 243 firearms were lost in both agencies during that period, according to the January report from Inspector General Richard Skinner. Of those, 36 were lost because of circumstances beyond officers’ control — for instance, ICE lost a firearm during an assault on an officer. Another 28 were lost even though officers had stored them in lockboxes or safes.<\/p>\n

But 74 percent, or 179 guns, were lost “because officers did not properly secure them,” the report said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What? Did they carry their weapons in their pockets? How do you leave your handgun in the restroom? Did the evil Bush Administration not buy them holsters? What were they doing in the restroom that made them set their weapon down and forget it? A little wide-stance action?<\/p>\n

Have you ever been on a military base upon which a weapon was lost? We once lost a .45 pistol on a jump into Alaska. We did a battalion on-line police call in minus 30 degree weather on the drop zone for hours until we finally found the weapon which had fallen from several hundred feet into the 3-feet of snow. And Homeland Security leaves their handguns in public restrooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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