Fast and Furious now coming fast and furious

I had thought to do a Gunwalker update today, to bring my generous readers up to speed on a rapidly moving story, but Mike Vanderboegh beat me to it in a post at Sipsey Street Irregulars. The big news, of course, is the Subpoena issued by Rep. Darryl Issa Monday for a staggering array of documents from the Attorney General, and his top staff. Meanwhile, Mike V. and David Codrea report that Obama apparently knew that Eric Holder knew nothing about Fast and Furious before Holder knew he knew nothing about Fast and Furious...I think. Go check out the National Gun Rights Examiner. In fact, go check it out every day.

Stories about Fast and Furious have appeared on CBS, with Sharyl Attkison, on Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Judge Napolitano. Some of the stories have gotten some of the details wrong, but in the main have gotten the overall story correct. My own completely unscientific polling on the scandal suggests that at least a dim awareness of the story is getting out to most of the people, though the proportions of it have not yet hit the general population. So let's review shall we? The ATF let an estimated 2000 guns "walk" into Mexico and into the hands of Mexican criminal gangs. Some of these weapons were purchased using taxpayer funds. As a result of this callous plan to let them go and to see where they turned up, two Federal Agents were killed, 200 Mexican civilians were killed, and an estimated 18 U. S. civilians were killed. It now appears that the FBI, the DEA, Homeland Security and the State Department may be involved. For instance, there are indications that the FBI may have allowed a prohibited person to purchase weapons by manipulating the NISC database.  The Government is thereby disobeying its own laws in order, we are told, to enforce the law.  How does that work?

A few stories have popped up citing a Bush era plan, similar to Fast and Furious, to let straw buyers purchase weapons, which were then outfitted with RFID tags.  The ATF had planes overhead following the weapons as they made their way to the border.  The RFID tags were poorly placed, often limiting the range of the tags, and the gun runners would wait until the planes had to return for fuel, and then dash across the border.  The embarrassed ATF lost track of the guns.  500 weapons were involved, and the ATF shut it down pretty quickly when they were unable to keep track of the guns.  Lesson, supposedly, learned.  Along comes the Obama administration, with an even bigger plan to let guns walk.  More, they didn't even try to track the guns, just see where they turned up.  So why are these stories popping up now?  Well, it has to do with Lefty thinking, which is often childlike.  Remember as a kid, when you wanted to do something, and your mother said no?  Often you would cite another child who was allowed to do it.  In your mind, at the time, that should have ended the argument.  But you mother came out with something like "And if (name of child) jumped over a cliff, would you do it?"  Of course you wouldn't, but the point is that because others may or may not have gotten away with something does not excuse you.  But Leftys, being rather childlike, will say "But Bush...." It wasn't the same, but even if Bush "got away with it" doesn't excuse this administration.

Multiple laws, both domestic and international were broken.  As a result, people were killed.  Those who broke the law, or sanctioned breaking the law, should be punished.  If our elected officials are not subject to the laws they make for the rest of us, then the United States can no longer be said to be a representative republic.  Instead, it will have become a dictatorship.

Update: CBS is reporting that we can add grenades to the things being smuggled across the border. Now, to be clear, grenades are not something a U. S. citizen may buy or posses. The fallacy that gun shows are a flea market for buying military hardware is myth kept alive by the gun grabbers for political points. But if you want to see for yourself, go to a gun show. There's no secret handshake, and everyone is invited. Ask around about machine guns, or grenades, grenade launchers, or what have you. Go ahead.