Fast and the Furious

[Sulla the Dictator]

I'm surprised this isn't a major story in every media outlet. Perhaps some of my friends on the left in these parts can explain why this disaster doesn't horrify them? Deliberately distributing (And then losing) guns to drug cartels is bad enough. The fact that people were killed with those guns, one of whom was a border patrol agent, is a scandal, no?

[Starwatcher162536]

Did the guns in question be of a type that is not widely available? If not, it's a rather big fuck up. If so, not so much. If it weren't with those supplied guns it would have just been other guns. Since we are already in the assassination business we should just drone the cartels. The drug cartels do more harm then terrorists, probably by a factor of at least 10,000.

[chiwhisoxx]

Originally Posted by Sulla the Dictator

I'm surprised this isn't a major story in every media outlet. Perhaps some of my friends on the left in these parts can explain why this disaster doesn't horrify them? Deliberately distributing (And then losing) guns to drug cartels is bad enough. The fact that people were killed with those guns, one of whom was a border patrol agent, is a scandal, no?

I think the fact that people happened to get killed isn't what makes it a scandal. I'm still waiting for someone to explain the underlying logic and the potential upside here, cause all I see is the potential (and the results) of massive fucking disaster.

[Wonderment]

Since we are already in the assassination business we should just drone the cartels. The drug cartels do more harm then terrorists, probably by a factor of at least 10,000.

Or you could just stop buying the drugs. Problem solved. Nobody dead.

[sugarkang]

Originally Posted by Wonderment

Or you could just stop buying the drugs. Problem solved. Nobody dead.

By stop buying drugs you mean we could have government monopolize the drug trade to undercut the drug cartels out of existence and use that revenue to meet fiscal shortfalls because it's the closest thing to decriminalization that a pro-drug-war guy like Mark Kleiman could be persuaded to adopt.

Or did you really mean that we should be promoting abstinence only education?