Former candidate for the U.S. Senate Bruce Herschensohn once said, "A bureaucracy has an investment in failure...As long as they don't succeed, they have a job."

I ask you to ponder those words carefully. Most people would agree that an obvious application of Mr. Herschensohn's poignant observation would be the welfare system. However I am going to propose, on the basis of Mr. Herschensohn's principle, a radical concept: that law enforcement-- particularly the Federal bureaucratic growth of law enforcement agencies to include the entire Justice and jurisprudence system-- has a vested interest in crime.

Now, I am not suggesting that secretly any of our District Attorneys or the Attorney General are drug dealers or that any of our Federal Justices are on the "take".

I am proposing that law enforcement and justice agencies-- in the sole interests of seeing their annual budgets, personnel, and resources grow-- have no vested interest in seeing the growth of crime abated. The growth of crime is their number one reason for increasing their bureaucratic budgets and manpower.

Additionally, "gun-related crime" fosters agencies and departments to grow through more political demagoguery.

Especially in "gun violent" crime, liberal politicians and liberal law enforcement leaders can capitalize on the terror felt by the general public. They can then use that terror to fuel their increase in power.

By passing more gun control laws and removing defensive weapons from the hands of the general public, and ruling in courts that people don't have the right to defend themselves against violent crime; power is consolidated into the hands of the elite few. The elite exempt themselves from the law and allow themselves CCW rights; but the common man is refused these liberties.

Here is an example of this social-cycle:

Criminals and organized gangs take over our streets and commit crimes. The average person is prohibited from defending himself/herself.

The Law Enforcement bureaucracy grows to accommodate the increase in crime. Arrests increase which clog our courts. Our court bureaucrats complain for-- and receive-- more funds to grow their bureaucracy to handle the court dockets that are clogged with suspects awaiting trials.

Once tried and found guilty, the criminals are sentenced to jails that become crowded; or the courts adopt a "catch and release" progressive philosophy.

Criminals that are set free begin the cycle of crime again.

Bureaucrats that maintain the prisons complain that they need more space and staff for the ever-enlarging criminal population.

Local, State, and Federal Governments squeeze more money from the taxpaying, law-abiding citizens to pay for the ubiquitous growth in both the industry of crime and the bureaucracies that service and subsidize it.

The taxation destroys jobs, businesses, and economic growth which further reinforces the concept that crime does pay.

This leaves you and me, the frustrated law-abiding tax-paying citizens, victimized both by the criminal element and its new accomplices.

Is there a way to put an end to this cycle?

Short of a change in the morality and behavior of both the criminal and bureaucratic populations, no.

The general public must take a stand and resist both the state and the criminal in order to affect change.

I believe that the cycle, if unchecked, will drive a peace-loving, law-abiding public into a vigilante sub-culture where the Rule of Law will be as untamed as the Old West.

The formerly law-abiding citizen will be transformed into a criminal himself, illegally owning a gun and illegally defending himself from crime.