Even Paranoids Have Enemies
Some of the responses I have seen to Operation Fast and Furious attempt to portray those who support the right to bear arms as being paranoid about the government’s sending guns to the Mexican drug cartels. CBS News has documents proving that the ATF used the secret government program to justify ATF demands for laws covering multiple gun sales.
This is the rough equivalent of burglarizing houses in a neighborhood to boost burglar alarm system sales.
We aren’t being paranoid. The federal government sent arms to the drug cartels to undermine a right explicitly set in the Constitution.
Somebody needs to be fired – and then jailed. This is the United States not Russia.
UPDATE: John Hinderaker from Powerline weighs in with the ultimate question to President Obama:
(W)hy in the world did the Obama administration not just allow AK-47s and other weapons to be shipped across the border to Mexican drug gangs, but encourage and even finance such transactions, over the objections of jittery gun shop owners and its own veteran agents? If the Obama administration wasn’t trying to set up an argument for more gun control, then what was it trying to do? That question has never been answered.
As I have said before, as a kid I watched the Watergate hearings after school instead of cartoons. Later in college I watched the Iran-Contra hearings instead of getting drunk with my friends. Now I’m watching the Fast and Furious hearings and without a doubt, Fast and Furious stands out as the worst scandal of the three. Why? Because no one died from Watergate.
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