Thursday, November 3, 2011

No conspiracy theory: 'Gunwalker' being used RIGHT NOW to justify more gun laws - St. Louis gun rights | Examiner.com

No conspiracy theory: 'Gunwalker' being used RIGHT NOW to justify more gun laws - St. Louis gun rights | Examiner.com: From Jon Stewart and Media Matters, to the more serious news media, it has become fashionable to contemptuously dismiss the idea that "Project Gunwalker" was and remains intended as justification for more onerous gun regulation as a paranoid "conspiracy theory." Yesterday's Arizona Daily Star provides a good example, in observing the problem with comparing "Operation Fast and Furious" to the Watergate scandal (although the article misses the most obviouis weakness with such a comparison--that Watergate did not get anyone killed):

What's missing in the Watergate comparison is a clear motive for the Obama White House to send weapons to Mexico. The National Rifle Association and its allies have filled that void with a theory that, in Babeu's words, Fast and Furious was part of a "master plan" to bring about more gun control.



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