The phrase "taking a chainsaw to the bureaucracy" is a common enough description of what DOGE is doing that using it doesn't feel nearly as creative as it should. It's definitely ripping it to shreds, though, and I happen to feel that's a good thing overall.
Yet the media thinks we should feel bad for those folks. After all, they're out of work. The problem is that the national news media only cares about some jobs. They don't care, for example, by people in the gun industry negatively impacted by gun control.
The local news might, and they sometimes do, such as this gun store in Rhode Island.
Rhode Island gun control advocates believe this is the year lawmakers will pass a ban on so-called assault style weapons. But a gun shop owner in Glocester told 12 News the legislation would ban far more than the controversial AR-15.
The legislation, proposed in both the House and Senate, would restrict the manufacturing, sale and ownership of so-called assault-style weapons.
Will Worthy, one of the owners of Big Bear Hunting and Fishing, said the ban would require him to remove 90% of the guns off his shelves.
“It would shut us down,” he said. “[It would] shut every other store down in the state as well.”
Worthy showed 12 News a few of the weapons that would be banned under the legislation, ranging from antique shotguns to much smaller weapons.
“This revolver right here is going to be illegal because it’s over 50 ounces,” he said. “I don’t have one AR-15 on this table, but everything here is going to be illegal.”
Currently, both the House and Senate are considering the bills in their respective judiciary committees. If passed, the ban would go into effect Jan. 1, 2026.
Honestly, I don't think this assault weapon ban would survive judicial review, at least as it currently stands, because it's so expansive and would effectively ban so much, but by the time the courts rule, the damage will be done.
The firearm industry has a lot of layers, but gun stores are the layer most likely to be impacted by gun control.
If this gun store were to shut down, not only would the owner lose his place of business, but all of his employees would be out of work. If it did this across the entire state, that's a significant number of people.
However, the media doesn't care about them.
They're too busy telling us that we should feel bad about some guy who got laid off from the IRS.
Now, as someone who has lost jobs before, I get that it sucks no matter who you work for. I get that the impact on these people and their families is significant. But that's also true of people in the gun industry who lose their jobs not because they work for a bloated federal government that's been in need of trimming for decades but because anti-gun jihadists seem to believe that what they do is immoral and should be banned.
Why don't those folks get interviews on CNN or MSNBC to talk about how awful this is? Why is the loss of employment not a problem then?
The simple answer is that no one at these networks care. They, like gun control advocates, seem to believe that the entire industry is immoral and those folks deserve what they got.
No one there cares about the jobs lost when Slide Fire or Polymer80 were pushed out of business, at least for a time. Those jobs didn't matter to anyone there, even though what they made was completely legal until the rules shifted on them without even the benefit of a vote in Congress.
No one there cares about people like Mr. Worthy, who may lose everything, simply because of the law.
So no, I won't feel bad that the person at the National Park Service in charge of talking about transgender bears is looking for work.
