July 24, 2011 in Opinion, Letters

Fast, furious feds

 

Michael Ramirez’s editorial page cartoon (July 18) about the federal government’s “Fast and Furious” operation spotlights a campaign that went awry.

To recap, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives deliberately allowed military-style rifles, purchased in the U.S., to pass into Mexico so that the agency could “track” them. These weapons, nearly 2,000 of them, were subsequently “lost.” Tragically, two of the guns were used to kill a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

Now, Attorney General Eric Holder, another notoriously anti-gun Obama administration appointee, is stonewalling as Congress tries to sort out how Operation Fast and Furious failed.

As a final outrage, Democratic Party Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who has said that she wants all privately owned firearms in the U.S. “turned in,” blames our Second Amendment for violence in Mexico!

Our own government supplies guns to Mexico’s drug cartels while Democratic Party stooges, like Dianne Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer and Chuck Schumer, are trying to disarm honest Americans!

Lee Freese (Letters, July 26) said that Barack Obama, a vicious anti-gunner while in Congress, has no designs on our right to bear arms. Freese also said that I was “making things up” about the Democratic Party’s efforts to kill the Second Amendment. Freese is delusional!

Curtis E. Stone

Colville

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  • Joe5sly on July 24 at 9:30 a.m.

    as with ALL of his bi-monthly rants, Mr. Stone uses lots of Adjetives—and no facts. “anti-gunner, notorius anti-gunner, vicious anti-gunner”. Quite the vocabulary ! Without a single fact to back up the allegation, this is just one ill-informed opinion.

  • greenlibertarian on July 24 at 6:35 p.m.

    And then the dolt ends his letter with the always intelligent “I know you are, but what am I?” thus acting like a petulant 1st grader.

  • Arch_Druid on July 25 at 11:05 p.m.

    Curtis Stone throws tantrums if anyone looks at him cross-eyed. LOL! Now if the dude were to take a close look at history, he’d discover that the Second Amendment as to its original intent died a long time ago. And what the neo-leftists among the NRA “are defending,” is totally contrary to the amendment’s intentions anyway. Since they regard “the state” as an enemy. Reminds me of what the radical (old) leftists back in the 60s also regarded “the state” as being. You can’t very well “defend a free state” if you “fear” that it will take your toys away from you.

    Curtis Stone needs to realize that the NRA abandoned all pretense to “defending” the intentions of the Second Amendment a long time ago and are all for defending a liberal expansion of where the founding fathers never expected the amendment to go. Individual gun rights.

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