by Leo Hohmann, Leo Hohmann:

Senator Joni Ernst, Republican of Iowa, introduced a bill last week which she has labeled in the form of a question: Her bill is called the “Why does the IRS Have Guns Act?”

“Why do paper-pushing tax collectors at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) need guns?” she asks on her website. “That’s the $35 million-dollar question.”

She says Americans should be “gravely concerned” that the IRS is armed, loaded, and coming after them. Especially given the agency’s history of conducting armed raids on innocent Americans.