BATFE Wanted Fast and Furious to Justify Gun Control
NRA-ILA GRASSROOTS ALERT Vol. 18, No. 49 12/09/11 - 12/09/2011
No Surprises Here--
BATFE Wanted Fast and Furious to Justify Gun Control
NRA-ILA GRASSROOTS ALERT Vol. 18, No. 49 12/09/11
From the first moment that the American people became aware that senior BATFE officials ordered agents in the field
to allow guns sold in the U.S. to be smuggled on an all-but-certain path to Mexico’s vicious drug cartels, many of
us have wondered “why.”
What possible legitimate purpose could be fulfilled by allowing a large number of guns—over 2,000, by some
estimates—to disappear across our southwestern border without the Mexican government’s knowledge?
There has been only one logical answer possible. Someone within the BATFE or higher in the Department of Justice
wanted the smuggled guns to be recovered at crime scenes in Mexico, and traced to sources within the U.S., so that
the Obama Administration could claim a need for one or another gun control measure being pushed by anti-gun groups.
Someone who values gun control more than the lives of innocent people killed by cartel operatives armed with the
BATFE’s “walked” guns. Someone who believes, as one BATFE official put it, that “to make an omelet, you have to
break some eggs.”
Holder’s Talking, but What is He Saying? So far, NRA, 52 U.S. Representatives, two U.S. Senators, and multiple GOP
Presidential candidates have called on Attorney General Eric Holder to resign because of his role in the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive’s failed “Operation Fast and Furious.”
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