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发帖数: 29846 | 1 The President's grape-fruit sized 'nads
by Rick aka Mr. Brutally Honest
When I heard about this yesterday, I was incredulous:
President Obama used a speech at Mexico’s Museo Nacional de Antropolog
ía – the National Anthropology ObamaInMexicoMuseum – to claim that ‘most
of the guns used to commit violence here in Mexico come from the United
States.’
‘I think many of you know that in America, our Constitution guarantees
our individual right to bear arms,’ Obama said. ‘And as president, I swore
an oath to uphold that right, and I always will.’
‘But at the same time, as I’ve said in the United States, I will
continue to do everything in my power to pass common-sense reforms that keep
guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people.’
‘That can save lives here in Mexico and back home in the United States,
’ Obama added. ‘It’s the right thing to do.’
'So we'll keep increasing the pressure on gun traffickers who bring
illegal guns into Mexico. We'll keep putting these criminals where they
belong: behind bars.'
It's ballsy, to say the least, that this guy would in essence blame America
for Mexico's violent culture while ignoring his administration's own
culpability in the Fast and Furious scandal.
Obama also did not mention the more than 2,000 firearms that his
Department of Justice ‘walked’ across the Mexican border as part of
Operation Fast and Furious, a federal law enforcement project that aimed to
track weapons to drug traffickers.
Those guns have been connected to the deaths of at least 300 Mexican
citizens. And U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry died in December 2010
when a so-called ‘Fast and Furious gun’ was recovered at the scene of his
murder during a routine patrol in Arizona.
An ensuing Congressional investigation led to the first-ever citation of
a sitting cabinet member – Attorney General Eric Holder – for contempt of
Congress. Holder declined to provide most of the more than 140,000
documents subpoenaed by a House committee, although the Department of
Justice did selectively turn over thousands of others.
The term gun ‘walking’ referred to the administration-approved
practice of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) of
instructing legal gun dealers to sell firearms to so-called ‘straw buyers
’ who intended to pass them on to others.
Once sold, the guns would be ‘walked’ across the U.S.-Mexico border
with the permission of federal authorities. While their intention was to
follow more than 2,000 guns to their destinations inside the illicit Mexican
drug trade, barely one-third of them – principally the weapons used in
murders and then discarded at the scene, as is common in Mexico – were ever
recovered.
Some gun rights groups have argued that Operation Fast and Furious was
intentionally devised as a way to promote gun control, citing emails between
senior ATF officials that discussed whether the Fast and Furious guns in
one region ‘were all purchased from the same [dealer] and at one time.’
‘We are looking at anecdotal cases to support a demand letter on long
gun multiple sales,’ one email read.
In another, one ATF leader wrote to another that Fast and Furious ‘
could be a strong supporting factor if we can determine how many multiple
sales of long guns occurred during the course of this case.’
ATF’s intention, ultimately scrapped under political pressure, was to
increase reporting requirements on licensed gun dealers when they sell more
than one weapon in a single transaction.
A White House spokesman did not respond to a request for comment about
whether President Obama was referring to Fast and Furious weapons in his
speech.
It's glaringly revealing that this report comes not from a stateside media
outlet but from abroad.
More revealing is that half the country knows not a thing about Obama's
blatant hypocrisy.
We are as a country in deep kimchee. | s********t
发帖数: 4150 | 2 出口非法枪，进口非法人。 哈哈，this is America. | j*****v
发帖数: 7717 | 3 政府时不时拿些＂过时＂的枪出来贱卖，要查查有多少流入墨西哥
现在国土安全局大把进枪支弹药，若干年后一样拿出来贱卖，到底谁在支持军火商？ |
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