Trading Mexican Lives For Public Relations

Via Breitbart, video of Eric Holder in 1995 claiming we need to “Brainwash” the citizenry when it comes to guns:

Holder was addressing the Woman’s National Democratic Club. In his remarks, broadcast by CSPAN 2, he explained that he intended to use anti-smoking campaigns as his model to “change the hearts and minds of people in Washington, DC” about guns.

“What we need to do is change the way in which people think about guns, especially young people, and make it something that’s not cool, that it’s not acceptable, it’s not hip to carry a gun anymore, in the way in which we changed our attitudes about cigarettes.”

Holder went on, of course, to run one of the most egregiously, disastrously corrupt programs in the history of American government, “Fast and Furious”, a program hatched entirely to trade Mexican (and American) lives for points against the dreaded “gun lobby”.

Local political leaders and celebrities, Holder said, including Mayor Marion Barry and Jesse Jackson, had been asked to help. In addition, he reported, he had asked the local school board to make the anti-gun message a part of “every day, every school, and every level.”

Despite strict gun control efforts, Washington, DC was and remains one of the nation’s most dangerous cities for gun violence, though crime has abated somewhat since the 1990s.

Note to Attorney General Holder:

I shot about 300 rounds over the weekend.

It was cool.

Spread the word!

 

6 thoughts on “Trading Mexican Lives For Public Relations

  1. As one of my Drill Instructors once told us; “Quit wasting ammo, boot!” 😉

  2. Actually didn’t some border patrol agents get killed with guns used in Fast and Furious? I think the potential political fallout would make Solyndra look like childs play.

  3. Truly another case of a government agency using a template (the one that goes “turn the mules, bust the mid-level narcos and offer them deals to turn over the capos, and go get someone like “the Beard” Beltran-Leyva.” I’m sure the poor ATF schmucks thought they had a slam-dunk plan as it had been time tested by DEA in our dubious ‘war’ on drugs.

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