PaulS1950
Senior Member
While 1.6 billion may be a lot of bullets, I don't really see where the hypocrisy comes in. What does violence on the streets have to do with bulk purchases by government agencies? If you want to look for a connection on that score, it would seem to be anti-hypocritical. A round in a government warehouse is a round that isn't on the street. Also, scarcity which drives up prices may keep some killers out of the market. All in all, the question of why so many rounds were bought seems to have very little to do with the gun control debate, so the answer to the question posed in your subject line would be a resounding NO, IMO.
What is hypocratic about not wanting the citizens armed and making a new national police force that is armed like the military?
They have no war to fight! They can only operate within the borders of the US and there is no enemy here. That is dangerously hypocritical.