cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/60962

More than 200,000 federal bureaucrats now have been granted the authority to carry guns and make arrests – more than the 186,000 Americans serving in the U.S. Marine Corps. “One hundred three executive agencies outside of the Department of Defense spent $2.7 billion on guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment between fiscal years 2006 and 2019 (inflation adjusted),” notes the report. “Nearly $1 billion ($944.9 million) was spent between fiscal years 2015 and 2019 alone.”

The mother admitted that Ramos ‘kept to himself and didn’t have many friends’. However, she denied having a toxic relationship with him.

‘I had a good relationship with him,’ Reyes said from the hospital where her mother, Celia Gonzalez, was being treated after Ramos shot her in the face.

Reyes did not talk about being a drug addict, or about Ramos being taken away from her to live with his grandmother.