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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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