Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Is it paranoia when they're really out to get you?

I've been seeing these talking points (sure wouldn't call them "arguments") quite a lot. Maybe they resonate with somebody. Somewhere. I hope not to meet those people.

  • The ATF's woes are entirely the fault of the gun rights lobby, concerned to the point of paranoia over "constitutional abuses" when all the poor, beleaguered ATF wants is to put in place common sense regulations that do not violate the 2nd amendment.
  • The results of the novel, and perhaps questionable, ATF operation intended to curb gun smuggling into Mexico (which facilitated gun smuggling into Mexico and led directly to the deaths of hundreds of people) clearly demonstrate the need to increase ATF's power and budget.

This is the way we do it on the planet WaPo, and it works fine for us. So we need to impose it on all those bitter clingers. They'll thank us for it in the end.

H/T to Balko.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"perhaps questionable ATF operation"______ Ummmm let's just call that what it really was:
An act of war. Either against the 2nd Amendment or the Mexican people. Both being likely.
That is if it wasn't all about certain parties, including Mexico, perpetrating this to make real the myth that all those M4's stamped property of Mexico and Chinese AKs with the middle notch or Guatemalan grenades and Russian RPGs in the selector switch used in the drug war are coming from Bubba's gun n pawn in El Paso.

I went to Bubba's.....I din't see any RPGs.

Buck.

Plug Nickel Outfit said...

The second tact was how the first local TV network news handled the topic when it first came up a couple months ago - and that was in the same area where the BP agent was shot.

They didn't overtly use the first tact - not even in the Tucson TV market - at least not at first...

'Course - what else would I expect from the local network 'news'.