WASHINGTON—In a damning report that raised pointed questions on the federal company’s safety procedures, an investigation by the Home Committee on Homeland Safety concluded Monday that the Secret Service didn’t account for the nation’s 393 million civilian-owned weapons whereas defending former President Donald Trump. “Regardless of numerous previous warnings, the Secret Service didn’t heed the actual menace posed to the previous president by the a whole lot of tens of millions of firearms within the palms of on a regular basis Individuals,” mentioned Rep. Mark Inexperienced (R-TN), the committee’s chair, who known as upon Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to resign attributable to her “stunning negligence” in failing to deal with a long time of proof pointing to a dramatic rise within the variety of rifles, pistols, and shotguns in circulation across the nation. “The Secret Service’s singular obligation at that rally was to safeguard the president—it’s an obligation they merely didn’t take critically when you think about there’s a gun on this nation for each U.S. resident. The seriousness of this lapse can’t be overstated.” Turner added that the majority unlucky of all was the probability that violence towards elected officers would solely develop worse till the Secret Service began taking the hazards of weapons critically.
