"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. "Things that we had postponed for too long, that were long-term, are now immediate and must be dealt with. This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before." -- Rahm Emanuel, to a Wall Street Journal conference of top corporate chief executives, November 2008.
Diane Wueger, who blogs at Gunpowder and Lead, takes the Gunwalker scandal and predictably turns it into a citizen disarmament rant in the Atlantic: How American Guns Proliferate in Mexico and Fuel Drug Violence
The article is full of the usual, but in this paragraph I found an interesting observation:
There is a real human cost to the government's choice to allow purchases of unlimited assault weapons. While the individual right to own firearms has been settled by the Supreme Court, there is little guidance on the type of weapons the government must allow the individual to keep or how often the individual may purchase them. Given the high death tolls and the lives shattered, the desires of a few legitimate enthusiasts to acquire arsenals of AR-15s and of firearms manufacturers and dealers to protect their business interests do not outweigh the fact that a number of purchasers of these weapons are criminals and terrorists. There's little that the U.S. can easily do about the guns already in circulation; stemming the future tide is far more practical. Unfortunately, the political will is lacking, and while Fast and Furious provides an excellent backdrop against to act, the start of campaign season suggests this will be a crisis wasted.
"A crisis wasted."
Well, it's not like they didn't try their damnedest to exploit the crisis they created.
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Melson leads us to an operation involving at least three different agencies or departments - none knowing of other's involvement, but all supporting "behind the scenes" gun control plans and policy including false data of an "Iron River."
Conspicuous by absence is any mention of DOS - surely a player in any Southwest Conference discussions...which also counters the lie that the agencies and departments knew not of the operation.
...Already Dems are lining up to say the Departments need more $ and power. After Melson's revelations, surely associated agencies need coordination tools to "prevent rogue operations," tools that will be used against citizens rather than at a border porous by design.
No "wasted crisis" here...but the truth may bring down the most corrupt administration and crime family in history.
-Ronin 64
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