Another Government Agency Fueling Violence

This time it is the ATF. Peter has the details.

The ATF is notorious for this kind of behavior. They make up scenarios so that they appear to be needed. They've been pointing to increasing violence in Mexico and along the Mexican border as evidence that they are needed, and that they need more funding. Turns out they've been sending the guns down there. Remember a while back we had a media buzz about the legit American gun industry being at fault? It's a big sham folks.

The ATF needs to be disbanded. The federal government has no legitimate reason to be involve with alcohol, tobacco, or firearms production. On top of the already onerous problem of having to pay for a bureaucracy and regulation that shouldn't exist, now we have to deal with the violence and death caused by this very agency attempting to create conditions under which they could get a higher budget from congress.

So, I encourage you to go read Peter's post about it, and pass on the information as he suggests so that the ATF cannot hide from this mistake. I don't think enough people remember or understand that the attack on the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas was a similar attempt at grandstanding for a higher budget, which ended in the deaths of many people. David Koresh often left his compound and a law enforcement agency interested in just enforcing law could have easily arrested him on the street somewhere without incident. Instead the ATF orchestrated a military style raid, which was not only unconstitutional and unnecessary, but incompetent, resulting in a stand-off and a multi-agency fiasco. It wasn't the beliefs or the actions of the people inside the compound that ultimately led to their death, but the egos of the various authorities outside. Any of the dozen other agencies ought to have arrested the ATF crew and backed away from the compound, but if I remember correctly one or more of these officious buffoons had been shot, so it became an 'us against them' issue for the government men. I do wish, occasionally, they'd remember they were civilians too, once, and we do have a right to self defense.

It seems John Dodson remembered, and I'm glad he is speaking up. Of course, the flash-point for all this new found honesty is another federal agent, a border patrol agent, getting killed with one of the guns the ATF brought to the party, so maybe it's still 'us against them' regardless...