What is the real story here?

"These strategic sourcing contracts help leverage the purchasing power of DHS to efficiently procure equipment and supplies at significantly lower costs,"
- DHS legislative affairs official

Through multiple acquisition contracts the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is poised to buy 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition over the next 5 years, according to the article linked to above. The quote comes from a DHS representative in response to questions from Rep. Tim Huelskamp about the large purchase requisitions. And frankly, all things considered, it sounds plausible... or just plausible enough. What else are they going to say? After all, all those government agents and associated armed DHS affiliates don't enter on duty fully trained and competent with firearms; nor do they maintain proficiency after one qualification session on the range. So lots of rounds for training makes sense, and it is a big homeland; lots of land to cover. Right?

So what else are they going to say? Perhaps:
"DHS studies suggest that there is a 30% likelihood that in the next 3 years there will be an all out uprising of the populous across several key areas in the U.S. due to increasingly high dissatisfaction of the people with the policies of this White House and its administration with respect to rights guaranteed in the Constitution, and given our current state of readiness, and the percentages we presented with, it behooves the Department to prepare for this potential crisis in order to quell any insurrection with all necessary force, as an uprising will be considerably violent due to the large number of armed citizens, many with multiple firearms in their possession."

Nope.  Can't say that. Although, can anyone deny that this work of fiction written above, is not also plausible; that someone was tasked to conduct such a study? Considering that DHS has already put into record reports that suggest that "Right-Wing Extremists" are a brand of terrorists that the U.S. government must watch, it puts the last paragraph into a new scary context, does it not?

But what is the real story here? Putting pieces together from across the internet and telling a story, conspiratorial in nature or more benign, is all well and good. But what is real is that there is a large portion of the population is that ever more distrustful of the government, and the stories getting pieced together are becoming more and more plausible. Any student of history will acknowledge parallels from one era to another. No! Must acknowledge, for it is one of the most valuable lessons from examining the past. The real story here is that there is growing fear and mistrust, and it may be intangible now, with people looking around for pieces with which to make truth, but when plausible becomes "beyond a reasonable doubt' hopefully the citizenry will have prepared for danger, and not just DHS.

By the way, DHS is ranked as one of the worst government agencies to work for according to the non-profit, Partnership for Public Service. So not only are they buying loads of ammunition, they are also disgruntled. Tell me THAT'S not a recipe for disaster.