Guns and Crime

In this Virtual State of the Union, the Virtual President talks about why politicians prefer to talk about gun control rather than crime control:



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'Fast and Furious' Story Gets Legs

"Fast and Furious hasn’t been discussed a lot in the mainstream media, which is why the facts can seem so preposterous when you read them for the first time," writes Tim Stanley at the UK Telegraph. "But the story is slowly unraveling and the public is catching up with the madness" following a House Oversight & Government Reform Committee vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt for withholding documents and President Obama's 11th hour decision to invoke Executive Privilege on them. Stanley does a masterful job of summarizing the story succinctly:

Here’s what Fast and Furious is all about — and for the uninitiated, be prepared for a shock.

In 2009, the US government instructed Arizona gun sellers illegally to sell arms to suspected criminals. Agents working for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) were then ordered not to stop the sales but to allow the arms to “walk” across the border into the arms of Mexican drug-traffickers.