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Dems use 'Fast and Furious' to tighten gun laws

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The lawmakers praised Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the Oversight committee, for broadening the inquiry into Fast and Furious to include a look at American gun laws. The Maryland Democrat released a report early Thursday titled “Outgunned,” that details how ATF agents say gun laws need to be tightened for them to fight organized crime along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Read more: 'Fast and Furious' inquiry broadens - Seung Min Kim - POLITICO.com

What was it someone said recently about how Libbos are all about Liberty and Freedom?
 
We are a country on the verge of defaulting on our trillion dollar loans and congress is investigating "The Fast and Furious?" What- did they bring Paul Walker on as an expert witness? I guess thats a good fit, he sucks at acting, but he would indeed make a good congressional expert on gun control policy. FAIL
 
We are a country on the verge of defaulting on our trillion dollar loans and congress is investigating "The Fast and Furious?" What- did they bring Paul Walker on as an expert witness? I guess thats a good fit, he sucks at acting, but he would indeed make a good congressional expert on gun control policy. FAIL

Oh, no! They're not investigating Fast and Furious actually, like they should be; rather they're using Fast and Furious as evidence that we need more regulations on private ownership of firearms.
 
They aren't talking about the movie.
 
June 21, 2011

Issa staffer: Gunrunner investigation points much higher than ATF director

Published: 1:01 PM 06/21/2011 | Updated: 6:26 PM 06/21/2011

A spokesman for House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa told The Daily Caller the congressman expects his investigations into the Justice Department’s gun walking programs to point to a much higher political appointee than acting ATF director Kenneth Melson.

Melson is widely expected to resign some time in the next couple of days in the face of political pressure from Issa’s investigations into Project Gunrunner and Operation Fast Furious.

Even if Melson resigns, Issa spokesman Frederick Hill said the Committee expects to find much more and continue with investigations.

“The investigations are far from over,” Hill told TheDC. “It’s quite certain that Kenneth Melson was not the principal architect of this plan nor was he the only high-ranking official who knew about and authorized this operation.

Project Gunrunner | Kenneth Melson | ATF Resignation | The Daily Caller

Nothing would make me happier than to the the culprits in this case brought to justice and go to jail. They deserve to be there. A Border Patrol Agent is dead, those responsible must be brought to justice.
 
Wow.

Did you even read the article or just the title?
 
Oh, no! They're not investigating Fast and Furious actually, like they should be; rather they're using Fast and Furious as evidence that we need more regulations on private ownership of firearms.

There is something downright inspirational about members of the legislature using the fact that the government violated its own laws as evidence that there needs to be new laws that restrict the freedoms of law-abiding private citizens.
 
The most troubling part is the use of an operation that puts the lives of American citizens at jeapordy to push for more gun restrictions.
Even if it is inept, its still criminal.
 
The most troubling part is the use of an operation that puts the lives of American citizens at jeapordy to push for more gun restrictions.

Yeah. The old chestnut "if you outlaw guns only outlaws will have guns" is based on notion that they won't obey gun laws. Actually going out and arming the outlaws is beyond the pale.
 
Yeah. The old chestnut "if you outlaw guns only outlaws will have guns" is based on notion that they won't obey gun laws. Actually going out and arming the outlaws is beyond the pale.

The following is a summary of articles appearing on the Sipsey Street Irregulars blog and Gun Rights Examiner, reflecting original reporting on the developing “Project Gunwalker” story by Mike Vanderboegh and Michelle Malkin.

*** ATF management was allowing potentially hundreds of semiautomatic firearms to be walked across the Mexican border in order to pad statistics used to further budget and power objectives.
* Mexican authorities were kept in the dark, and protests that they should be informed were overridden, first by the Phoenix ATF office, and ultimately by higher-ups in Washington, DC.
* A gun used in this operation was involved in a December 2010 incident in which a Border Patrol agent was killed.

*** What is probably closer to the truth is: ATF management was allowing potentially hundreds of semiautomatic firearms to be walked across the Mexican border in order to pad statistics used to further budget and power objectives, and disarm the American people.

I wonder if Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer had something to do with this?
 
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What was it someone said recently about how Libbos are all about Liberty and Freedom?

Calling Democrats liberals is an insult to liberals.
 
The director of the ATF resigning is insufficient. I want the agency abolished.
 
We are a country on the verge of defaulting on our trillion dollar loans and congress is investigating "The Fast and Furious?" What- did they bring Paul Walker on as an expert witness? I guess thats a good fit, he sucks at acting, but he would indeed make a good congressional expert on gun control policy. FAIL

Hey Public, look over here, so you won't see what's over here.
 
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