{"id":30480,"date":"2012-06-22T08:05:25","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T12:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30480"},"modified":"2012-06-22T08:05:25","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T12:05:25","slug":"eugene-robinson-spectacular-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30480","title":{"rendered":"Eugene Robinson; spectacular ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really avoid Eugene Robinson at the Washington Post because he’s so ignorant and partisan, that you can expect him to write things that you’d normally hear on a street corner from a homeless bum explaining his poverty. Robinson “won” a Pulitzer in 2009 for cutting and pasting Obama campaign talking points into the Washington Post. But today, I started reading his column before I realized that it was his. It’s Robinson’s illogical defense of the Attorney General<\/a>, because, according to Robinson, it was the guns that killed Brian Terry not criminals, and the Justice Department that armed them.<\/p>\n

What should Congress be investigating? The obvious first step is learning how officials in two administrations convinced themselves it was sensible to stand back and watch as powerful weapons passed into the hands of Mexican drug smugglers.<\/p>\n

Then Congress should look into the overall flow of firearms from the United States into Mexico. The Fast and Furious weapons were just a small part of a much larger problem. Mexican officials have complained for years that lax U.S. gun laws have the effect of worsening drug-related violence along the border. The damage done by cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine smuggled north across the border is mirrored by the damage done by guns smuggled south.<\/p>\n

If Issa really wants to save U.S. and Mexican lives, he should convene hearings on banning the sale of high-powered weapons. I think Holder would be happy to testify. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m more than sure that Holder would love to testify about high powered weapons – that was the whole point of F&F. It was a way to demonstrate that guns in the US were being used in the war across the border. But the Obama Administration is more than a little upset that we discovered that it was the Obama Administration that was sending weapons into Mexico by allowing criminals to bypass the laws we had in place to prevent that activity. And it was so that the Obama Administration could subvert the Second Amendment and justify more regulations targeted at legal gun buyers.<\/p>\n

Maybe Congress should also look into silverware exports to Mexico, too, because the way Mexicans are using spoons are making them fat. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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