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In reply to the discussion: What your uncle who watches FOX News all day is all worked up about (Fast and Furious) [View all]DanTex
(20,709 posts)The bigger picture, of course, is that there are tens of thousands of dead innocents killed by weapons smuggled illegally from US gun stored into Mexico. The F&F guns are a drop in the bucket. So it's not like the people who killed Brian Terry, for example, wouldn't have been armed if not for F&F.
Yes, there needs to be accountability, not just because the guns from F&F were lost track of, but more importantly, because the ATF badly needs an effective strategy to combat gun trafficking into Mexico. It also would probably help if it weren't legal to by 100 AK-47s in one visit to a gun store. If the GOP actually cared about the lives of people killed by illegally smuggled guns, then they wouldn't have fought tooth and nail against the kinds of regulations that might put a real dent into the gun smuggling.