Calling NRA Types
My throngs of adoring internet fan [sic] knows I have little to no patience for political posturing. This modicum of posturing is lessened when combined with abject hypocrisy. And in this spirit I come to you today.
See, there's this thing. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (a combination that should not, by all that is sane, be combined under the same roof) had this lil' ole' program that kinda sorta (pun not intended) "backfired." The program was stupidly named Operation Fast and Furious, a name based on one of the most gawdawful movie franchises to ever waste film.
The idea was that the BATF would sell weapons to known gun runners. Said gun runners would smuggle these to Mexico. Mexico at this time has pretty strict anti-gun laws. Guns are a highly regulated commodity there.
Of course this operation went tragically wrong, and a bunch of weapons that were sold to known buyers were somehow "lost." Making this worse is that some of these weapons made it into the hands of some pretty awful human beings who used them to, among other things, kill a US Border Patrol Agent.
The whole situation was a clusterfuck on many levels. That is not what makes me angry and sputtering. What does is that this stupid, abortion of a law enforcement operation has been seized upon by uber right wing folks who are convinced that this idiotic operation was ostensibly somehow approved by Obama and is, therefore, a reflection of his ineptness and possible grounds for impeachment and drawing and quartering and yadda yadda.
Being a Godless Freedom-Hating Lie-brul®, I suppose I should be outraged and disgusted by this stupid screwup. And, really, I am! But I can't reconcile the idiocy of this operation against the baldfaced hypocrisy of the folks criticizing it. To wit, the people most vocal about the lack of tracking these weapons that were lost and then used in crimes are the same asshats who gnash their teeth and pull their hair every time the BATF wants to do something sane like, say, require that someone buying a RPG at a gun show in Yuma have to show a valid ID with the same tired refrain taht "It VI-LATZ AWR GAWD GIBBEN SECUND AMENDMENT RITES!!!"
I like guns! they are nifty machines that are fun to shoot. As a Godless Freedom-Hating Lie-brul® I endorse personal freedoms as to the extent they do not impede upon the freedoms of others (Cue Rush Limbaugh's tiny brain implofding at the concept of "A Lie-brul whut likes guns?!?").
So, really, NRA types... care to comment on your position on Operation Fast and Furious? What's it going to be? We track guns and you bitch about it? Or we don't track guns and you bitch about it?