Robert VerBruggen reliably defends the Second Amendment. For some reason he wants to give the administration the benefit of the doubt despite evidense against the accused of means, opportunity and multiple motives. He omitted the need to maintain the enthusiasm and donations from the Brady Campaign et al. He's just afraid that Issa is going out on a limb without conclusive evidence of abject stupidity. Don't ask me why.
One of the most tragic aspects of the aftermath of the attempted assassination of President Reagan is what happened to Brady and what happened to us as a result.
Brady was extremely likeable and popular. It’s really sad what happened to him.
But his wife, in mindless fury at what happened to her husband has done much harm to the country.
People supported the Brady bill because they liked and sympathized with this couple.
It’s over. Forget the Brady’s. Bad things happen. I’m sorry but the Brady bill has always been ridiculous.
From the article:
“It was always just a matter of time before Fast and Furious became public knowledge, and at that point the statistics and anecdotes become useless as gun-control propaganda — and a scandal is born. It’s hard to see why the gun-control-conspiracy explanation is more believable than the botched-sting-operation one, even if the latter seems like it could be the work of the Underpants Gnomes from South Park, and even operating under the assumption that the Obama administration cares not a whit for human life.”
This is where the author makes his false assumption. It is far from obvious that this scandal would become public knowledge. The MSM was only too willing to completely ignore it. It took more than a year and a half of hard work by dozens in the new media to bring this to a head, and it nearly did not happen. It never would have happened if the Tea Party had not brought about a Republican majority in the House.
The idea that the MSM is willing to make public a scandal without looking at whether it benefits the “progressive” agenda or not is simply false.