Mexicans kill people, not guns?

Just some vatos exercising their 2nd Amendment rights

I'll say it again, folks, I just don't get why FOX and the Right are so upset over the alleged selling of arms to Mexican drug cartels by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, aka "Fast and Furious."

People kill people, not guns.  It wouldn't matter if we sold them bazookas: no moral culpability on our side.  What they do with them is on their conscience.  In fact, we were just promoting free trade.

Moreover, there's no such thing as an "illegal" firearm.  God gave men -- including Mexican hombres -- the right to bear arms, period.  No law by men can take away that God-given right.  The 2nd Amendment clearly says "...shall not be infringed," and the Framers were masters of the English language, so that's exactly what they meant.  Any caliber, any size magazine, any quantity, automatic or semi- ... it doesn't matter.  God wants you to have access to everything.  (Limited of course only by the God-given precepts of the free market, i.e. your ability to pay.)

So I sincerely hope that my fellow firearms-rights defenders, my brothers-in-arms, are not selling out their core conservative beliefs just to score some political points in an election year.  

God does not approve this message.

'Furious' guns tied to 2010 Juarez massacre, other murders in Mexico

October 1, 2012 | FoxNews

URL: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/01/report-claims-to-have-found-57-more-guns-tied-to-operation-fast-and-furious/

Taibbi: AG's Goldman catch & release shows Obama has no balls

"But what about Fast & Furious, wah-wah-wah!...".  Enough.  That's a deliberate distraction, a media fabrication meant to pull the wool over your eyes while the real crooks make their getaway.

Let's admit that Attorney General Eric Holder has a job and he's not doing it because Obama told him not to, because Obama's Wall Street donors told him not to. That's the real Eric Holder scandal. But don't hold your breath waiting for WSJ, FOX, GB, Rush, et al to talk about it, because letting the banksters off scott free is just what they want.

Goldman Non-Prosecution: AG Eric Holder Has No Balls

By Matt Taibbi

August 15, 2012 | Rolling Stone

URL: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/ag-eric-holder-has-no-balls-20120815#ixzz23wDuN0ZH

Fast & furious onset of cognitive dissonance

I don't get what the big deal is.  People kill people, not guns.  So what difference does it make where the gun came from, or whether it was an "illegal" gun?  (I don't recall the 2nd Amendment labeling any firearms illegal....)  The important thing is to make sure that law-abiding citizens have the right to bear arms to protect themselves, because the bad guys, like Mexican drug cartels, will always find a way to buy guns.  Right?

Furthermore, the right to bear arms is a God-given right, not a government-given right, therefore God gave Mexicans the same right to buy firearms as Americans. Therefore, restricting the trade of guns across our borders is tantamount to "shaking our fist at God," to quote Franklin Graham and Sarah Palin.  Right?

Indeed, if Mexicans want to buy our firearms Made in the USA then God bless them!  That's free trade and export-fueld U.S. economic growth!  The Obama Administration should be encouraging them to buy our guns -- all our guns, big and small.

And the fact that jack-booted ATF thugs were doing the encouraging, well, that's just a miracle.  No more Wacos or Randy Weavers for them -- they were practically begging people to buy firearms.  What progress compared to the wicked Clinton Administration!

(Drugs, on the other hand, are still bad, m'kay.)

So why is the GOP so up in arms over free trade and people buying firearms?  

(It's too bad that the Good Lord didn't create human physiology 6,000 years ago in such a way that we would lose the power to speak or even function when suffering from irreconcilable cognitive dissonance; then Republicans would be catatonic and harmless most of the time.)

GOP investigators fault five ATF officials in gun-tracking fiasco

The agency's top man in Washington is among those accused of missteps and 'reckless strategy' in the Fast and Furious operation.

By Richard A. Serrano

July 30, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

URL:  http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-fast-and-furious-20120731,0,2334119.story

The REAL Eric Holder scandal

As usual, Obama's administration gets criticized for the wrong things while his real mistakes go ignored.  

Instead of being held in contempt of Congress for the scandal that never was, aka "Operation Fast and Furious," Attorney General Eric Holder should be skewered by lawmakers for not putting any resources into investigating Wall Street's fraud and misrepresentation leading up to, and during, the financial crisis that caused the Great Recession.  Despite his promise to do so.

After the S&L frauds, Republicans in Congress unleashed hundreds of investigators to produce hundreds of indictments, and bankers were not only fined but went to jail. Yet to-date, Obama's Justic Dept. hasn't prosecuted a single banker, much less put one behind bars.  Not one.  Instead, Obama honors Dubya's "gentelmen's agreement" with Wall Street to let them investigate themselves, and bring only civil charges and levy fines -- effectively punishing shareholders and taxpayers as they pay for corrupt bankers' dishonesty.

It just goes to show, once again, that in our political system you get what you pay for.  Wall Street learned its lesson after the S&L crisis: buy and own both parties to ensure lax regulation and criminal immunity.  

As Evidence Mounts, DC Insiders Worry About Holder's Inaction on Wall Street Crime

By Richard Eskow

July 10, 2012 | Huffington Post

URL: http://huff.to/MhF8gd