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Sen. Feinstein: Lax gun control is real 'problem' with Fast and Furious
2011-11-02
Democratic Caliphornia Sen. Dianne Feinstein told a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that lax gun control laws, not B.O. regime malfeasance within the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATF), was the real problem uncovered by Operation Fast and Furious.

"My concern, Mr. Chairman, is there's been a lot said about Fast and Furious, and perhaps mistakes were made, but I think this hunt for blame doesn't really speak about the problem," Feinstein said during the Tuesday hearing. "And the problem is, anybody can walk in and buy anything, .50-caliber weapons, sniper weapons, buy them in large amounts, and send them down to Mexico. So, the question really becomes, what do we do about this?"

"I've been here 18 years," Feinstein continued. "I've watched the BATF get beaten up at every turn on the road. And, candidly, it's just not right."
Posted by:Fred

#15  My 50 cal muzzleloader?
Posted by: no mo uro   2011-11-02 16:41  

#14  DiFi does not like guns, but her security detail has some, I am sure, and that is ok with her. So what is good for thee is not good for ye.

BATF should be beaten up because of what they do.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2011-11-02 15:54  

#13  DiFi does NOT like guns. Well...for us little people anyway.
Posted by: Secret Asian Man   2011-11-02 14:58  

#12  This statement was made with the media in mind. Now the media can 'report' on F&F by declaring that lax gun control laws is the reason for it (A congresscreature said so!) and the reason that agent ws killed - never mentioning that it was Holder and Obama who sent the guns to the Mexican Cartels.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2011-11-02 13:27  

#11  This argument could only appeal to the mental midgets already sufficiently confounded to have voted for her in the first place.
Posted by: Iblis   2011-11-02 13:20  

#10  She also said, back during the Clinton gun ban, "Mr. and Mrs. America, If we had the votes we would have made you turn them all in."
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2011-11-02 12:32  

#9  Let me see if I get this:

Dianne thinks that the cartels could have just wandered up here, loaded up on 50-cals, sniper rifles, assault rifles, tanks, aircraft carriers, etc., that BO et. al. didn't do anything that the cartels couldn't have done for themselves, and therefore it's not so bad. Of course, this leads to the conclusion that BO, Holder, and the rest of his cabinet and czars are qualified to run for a second term and continue with the drunken spending orgy that they have embarked on.

As a side-effect, this situation can be used to further tighten gun control legislation.

And since tightening gun control legislation in this case would be the usual emotional reaction, doesn't this make F&F a crisis that our rulers all Americans are feeling?
Posted by: gorb   2011-11-02 12:19  

#8  Mexico's Gun Supply and the 90 Percent Myth
As we discussed in a previous analysis, the 90 percent number was derived from a June 2009 U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report to Congress on U.S. efforts to combat arms trafficking to Mexico (see external link).

According to the GAO report, some 30,000 firearms were seized from criminals by Mexican authorities in 2008. Of these 30,000 firearms, information pertaining to 7,200 of them (24 percent) was submitted to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for tracing. Of these 7,200 guns, only about 4,000 could be traced by the ATF, and of these 4,000, some 3,480 (87 percent) were shown to have come from the United States.

This means that the 87 percent figure relates to the number of weapons submitted by the Mexican government to the ATF that could be successfully traced and not from the total number of weapons seized by Mexican authorities or even from the total number of weapons submitted to the ATF for tracing. In fact, the 3,480 guns positively traced to the United States equals less than 12 percent of the total arms seized in Mexico in 2008 and less than 48 percent of all those submitted by the Mexican government to the ATF for tracing.

Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165   2011-11-02 11:39  

#7  Suggestion for a new graphic for this kind of story: A spinning top.

Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2011-11-02 11:36  

#6  Dammit -- itchy trigger finger. Here is the comment I dumped, until badanov of Fred reverses it. :-(



#2  Doubletalk and Doublethink. It's always 1984 in the Democratic Party.
Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165   2011-11-02 09:57  
Posted by: trailing wife   2011-11-02 11:12  

#5  While the guns were busy walking the Dems were busy hollering about how most of the weaponry captured in Messico came from the U.S.

Has anybody heard that song lately?
Posted by: Fred   2011-11-02 11:11  

#4  Yeah, and Finestein has the solution (for her version of a totalitarian nightmare). Collect everyone's guns. Washington, NYC, Chicago, and all those other Democratic-controlled strongholds have done so well at being crime-free. Right? Jeebus these people are disgusting.
Posted by: JohnQC   2011-11-02 10:49  

#3  Actually, Di Fi has finally said outloud what the real agenda of F and F was...to make the gun laws appear so lax that the Dems could ram through comprehensive gun control.

It never was about tracking Narcoterrorists or locating Cartels, it was about making a travesty of our gun control laws to create the illusion that comprehensive gun control is necessary. Most of the weaponry used by the Narcs in Mexico are not available for sale in the US. The F and F program creates the ILLUSION that most of the weapons came from the US. Most of the really heavy stuff comes from China and Cuba. Of course we don't even want to mention the Al-Qaeda/Quds/Hizbullah connections to the Narcs in Mexico.
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2011-11-02 10:27  

#2  Doubletalk and Doublethink. It's always 1984 in the Democratic Party.
Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165   2011-11-02 09:57  

#1  "And, candidly, it's just not right."
Di Fi inadvertantly repeats her shrinks mental evaluation report.
Posted by: Muggsy Glink   2011-11-02 09:25  

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