ruggbutt wrote:callmeslick wrote:
both with arrows pointing to your head saying "I'm with Stupid", no doubt.

When are you going to admit you're wrong, dickhead? Stop trying to bullshit people here, cuz you're gonna get called on it.
since you won't accept the conclusions of the official reports, let's try the summations of Fortune magazine's investigation:
"Quite simply, there's a fundamental misconception at the heart of the Fast and Furious scandal. Nobody disputes that suspected straw purchasers under surveillance by the ATF repeatedly bought guns that eventually fell into criminal hands. Issa and others charge that the ATF intentionally allowed guns to walk as an operational tactic. But five law-enforcement agents directly involved in Fast and Furious tell Fortune that the ATF had no such tactic. They insist they never purposefully allowed guns to be illegally trafficked. Just the opposite: They say they seized weapons whenever they could but were hamstrung by prosecutors and weak laws, which stymied them at every turn.
Indeed, a six-month Fortune investigation reveals that the public case alleging that Voth and his colleagues walked guns is replete with distortions, errors, partial truths, and even some outright lies. Fortune reviewed more than 2,000 pages of confidential ATF documents and interviewed 39 people, including seven law-enforcement agents with direct knowledge of the case
now, was it a dumb-ass idea to continue for as long as was done, when things were getting nowhere? Sure, but the intents were good: To intervene in Arizona, which had become a "supermarket for the Mexican cartels", as the article states. Apparently, you loons have utterly ZERO control over the flood of weaponry you inflict upon the rest of us. It would be nice if you could police yourselves, but that seems out of the question.