There are some who are saying that there is a big (and crazy) conspiracy theory going around that the Obama adminisitration and DOJ ran ATF's Operation Fast and Furious in order to cut down on the 2nd Amendment. It may be crazy, but given the moves in the past few days to crack down and tighten laws on legal gun sales, that idea is gaining currency. Now comes the disclosure of an internal ATF e-mail that will only increase that discussion. Pajamas Media again has the story via Townhall..
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/gunwalker-smoking-gun-email/
"Can you see if these guns were all purchased from the same FfL and at one time. We are looking at anecdotal cases to support a demand letter on long gun multiple sales. Thanks Mark R. Chait Assistant Director Field Operations."
"Hellllllllo!"
"Miss Jones, Please type up a subpoena for Mr Chait."
Keep in mind the date of the e-mail-July 14, 2010. On May 3, 2011, Eric Holder testified that he only became aware of Operation
Gunrunner Correction: Fast and Furious "in the past few weeks". That may become important pending further revelations.
Representative Blake Ferenthold (R-Texas) is already looking at the possibility that the Obama Administration is involved in a conspiracy, regarding ATF's Operation Fast and Furious. Hopefully, others in the House will follow.
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Gary, you are talking crazier and crazier. I am a firm supporter of the Second Amendment. Whenever I hear Roman Catholic conservatives talk about excommunicating legislators who don't vote the church's party line, or who maintain that the government should support the Catholic Church because it is the One True Faith, I remind them that many of us would exercise our Second Amendment rights if such a thing were a serious possibility. (And to keep things in balance, "Some of my best friends are Catholic.")
ReplyDeleteBut it has been obvious for some time that Mexican drug gangs are getting a large part of their armament from legal gun dealers in Arizona, and other border areas, in illegal transactions. Only one gun dealer has actually been prosecuted that I've read anything about.
If we want to cut off the guns to the Mexican drug gangs, we can't let the paranoid cries of "Second Amendment" stop any and all investigations. After all, the right of "the people" to "keep and bear arms" is not the right to sell unlimited quantities of automatic and semi-automatic firepower to criminal syndicates in interstate and foreign commerce.
Guns sold by American gun dealers were killing U.S. agents long before this misguided hullaballoo got going. Maybe one investigation was handled badly, maybe not. I'm not convinced that its different from letting a big shipment of cocaine go to see where it ends up.
The rest is just sour grapes. The dogs are still mad that 53% of the electorate made Obama president, and they will do or say ANYTHING to try to undo that in the shortest possible time.
Unfortunately, you seem to have descended to the same level.
Siarlys,
ReplyDeleteI have a news bulletin for you. The job of ATF is to get guns off the street not see where they end up-unless they are in a position to take everybody down when the guns get to the final destination. That wasn't done here. Somebody in Washington wanted to make a point.
Why Gary, what do your Second Amendment friends, the ones you love to quote if it will add another dimension of faux scandal to this episode, what do they think of getting the guns off the street? Or is that even a mission you support?
ReplyDeleteAt the beginning of this nonsense, you were honest enough to point out the similarity between letting a load of cocaine go, to see where it travelled, and letting some guns go, for the same purpose. You were also sober enough to explain why you thought these were two different things, although it impressed me as a distinction without a difference.
So, are you or are you not in favor of denying guns to the drug cartels???