tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23717700.post3229198412127120168..comments2023-10-23T14:30:26.234-07:00Comments on Random Musings: The NRA, Fast and Furious, and Wide Receiver: What a difference a few years makesCraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03338682971485143332noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23717700.post-34149215284889713022011-10-17T20:49:33.556-07:002011-10-17T20:49:33.556-07:00Thank you for the clarification.Thank you for the clarification.Thane Eichenauerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12848580360960232789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23717700.post-29720450249655927762011-10-17T17:32:30.380-07:002011-10-17T17:32:30.380-07:00Thane -
Did I say Fast and Furious should be over...Thane -<br /><br />Did I say Fast and Furious should be overlooked? Hardly.<br /><br />In fact, I think that everyone involved should be fired (at the very least), if only because the scheme was a failure during the Bush Administration and the people who came up with it this time around are obviously incapable of learning the lesson from the prior operation.<br /><br />All - <br /><br />I was pointing out the NRA's blatant hypocrisy on this - they gave a free pass to an operation conducted during the Bush Administration while loudly and frequently criticizing a similar operation conducted during the Obama Administration.<br /><br />Engage in all of the logic leaps you desire, but by criticizing one and not the other, the NRA (and certain members of Congress) only reinforces the perception that those folks are more interested in partisan gamesmanship than in truth.Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03338682971485143332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23717700.post-50395556997116574122011-10-17T10:26:03.604-07:002011-10-17T10:26:03.604-07:00This is some sad sack reasoning. The NRA didn'...This is some sad sack reasoning. The NRA didn't complain about Wide Receiver therefore when government engages in shameful and illegal behavior now it should be overlooked?<br /><br />I am glad that there are plenty of people who find this reasoning to be as pitiful as I find it.Thane Eichenauerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12848580360960232789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23717700.post-5898653243614465282011-10-17T05:50:20.477-07:002011-10-17T05:50:20.477-07:00'...in order to allow BATFE to track an organi...'...in order to allow BATFE to track an organization of "straw" gun buyers.'<br /><br />Not even approximately true. ATF has no police powers in Mexico, and they didn't tell the Mexican authorities about F&F. The only conclusion that can be drawn is that there was <b>never</b> any intention to track anything.<br /><br />The only explanation that makes <b>any</b> sense is that F&F was an effort to "get the numbers up". The claim that 90% of Mexican crime guns originate from U.S. gun store sales has been disproven time and time again. F&F was designed to make that claim true.<br /><br />It's a half-step from treason.rexxheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12578166996312186309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23717700.post-13485636700234861972011-10-17T02:39:17.571-07:002011-10-17T02:39:17.571-07:00A few rather important differences between the two...A few rather important differences between the two operations, first the Mexican government was informed about Operation Wide Receiver, and many of the firearms were interdicted. While everybody not directly involved in trafficking firearms in Operation Fast and Furious were kept completely in the dark, and ZERO firearms were interdicted. In fact agents were directly, and in no uncertain terms told to look the other way while weapons were bought, sold, and smuggled. In Operation Wide Receiver we are talking about maybe two hundred guns, not exactly nothing but pales in comparison to the two thousand+ that we know about in Operation Fast and Furious. Operation Fast and Furious was just what one office in Arizona was up to, we have yet to get any real details on what was going on in other border states, not to mention Florida. If and when the truth gets out, I'm sure we will see this was hardly an isolated example of one office violating the laws of not just The United States of America, but international law as well.TL671https://www.blogger.com/profile/11169559666371493940noreply@blogger.com