IRS agent killed at training range in PHX

[smithers599]

https://www.azfamily.com/2023/08/17/sources-irs-agent-accidentally-shot-killed-by-fellow-agent-during-training-federal-gun-range-phoenix/

Obviously a Rule Four violation: "Be sure of your target."
The shooter mistook him for a taxpayer's dog.

 

[Crippledtrigger]

https://www.azfamily.com/2023/08/17/sources-irs-agent-accidentally-shot-killed-by-fellow-agent-during-training-federal-gun-range-phoenix/

Obviously a Rule Four violation: "Be sure of your target."
The shooter mistook him for a taxpayer's dog.

Lol you're going to hell.

 

[kenpoprofessor]

Wished I could pull up some sympathy from somewhere, just can't. I hope they all burn in hell, and every IRS agent should be tried and sentenced for treason.

Have a great, gun carryin', Kenpo day

Clyde

 

[Jack Dupp]

The question that should be asked is why the heck are IRS agents doing firearms training unless those 87,000 IRS agents hired were brought on with the intention of being farmed out to the AFT?

 

[Suck My Glock]

I was having a schitty day until I read this. :happy-bouncyyellow:

 

[hrob]

What a tragedy. I hope it was painful.

 

[pneuby]

from the link.....

The special agents involved in Thursday’s shooting were part of the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigations with the Phoenix Field Office.... law enforcement branch of the IRS and are fully-sworn law enforcement officers who investigate violations of the Internal Revenue Code, including potential tax crimes, money laundering and some bank secrecy act violations. According to the IRS, the Criminal Investigations Division is made up of 3,000 employees worldwide, with 2,100 of those being special agents.

 

[cool arrow]

fair enough, but why do they need to be armed for white collar crimes?

 

[Aztripod]

fair enough, but why do they need to be armed for white collar crimes?

They dont.

 

[QuietM4]

If any person/group has not paid taxes to the point where armed federal agents are needed to arrest you, I'd bet the same person/group is also involved in other illegal activity that would fall under the purview of the ATF/FBI/DEA/ETC...use their SWAT/HRT teams.

At the very least, the US Marshals Service should serve the arrest warrant. There is no legal need for armed IRS agents.

 

[Doc]

Can’t wait to hear the rest of the story.

My guess is they were banging eachother’s tranny wives.

 

[YNOTAZ]

Last I saw, 73 US government departments have armed staffs. Seems to be a badge for the guy/gal running the department, having your own small army, i.e., HUD, FDA, EPA.

 

[GunNut]

See this is how Communism works. Any supposed bogus "Fed agent" of any branch can do whatever they want with you the low bottom barrel Citizen

I have no feelings for the death. Thousands more should train and follow

 

[deadshot556]

Am I supposed to feel sympathy or something?

 

[smithers599]

Am I supposed to feel sympathy or something?

On one hand, I feel bad for the guy's wife and five children. On the other hand, he chose to sign up with Team Totalitarian. Probably thought he was joining the Good Guys, never realized he made the wrong choice.

In Band of Brothers, Shifty Powers said something like "The guy on the other side may have liked hunting and fishing, just like me." But that guy was working for the Nazis, so all bets are off. No doubt the families of the SS and the Einsatzgruppe soldiers grieved when their husbands/fathers/sons were killed, but their husbands/fathers/sons were on the wrong team, so tough.

I am not going to go out and kill any IRS or ATF agents (unless they try to kill me), but I'm not going to shed any tears if one of them gets killed.

 

[xerts1191]

 

[mallic]

If any person/group has not paid taxes to the point where armed federal agents are needed to arrest you, I'd bet the same person/group is also involved in other illegal activity that would fall under the purview of the ATF/FBI/DEA/ETC...use their SWAT/HRT teams.

At the very least, the US Marshals Service should serve the arrest warrant. There is no legal need for armed IRS agents.

Kind of torn on this statement as while I agree that there isn't a need to train and arm IRS agents specifically to be ready for armed incursion, I'd still say that as individual people within the US, they have every right to carry a gun regardless of their profession if it was a personally obtained defensive weapon. Ultimately they'd probably still screw up carrying and shoot themselves though.

As someone who hates bureaucracy though, I will not cry at the removal of another parasite feeding off my tax dollars.

 

[BigNate]

I can (and do) take both sides...

1) I don't celebrate the death of a person - they are dead - their family is suffering - it sucks for them.
2) There is no reason for the IRS to have it's own, armed, law enforcement arm. It should be disbanded.

 

[YNOTAZ]

Al Capone was arrested by the FBI for the crime of tax evasion.

IRS, along with the other 70+ armed federal departments/agencies, needs guns like I need another orifice.