[Sherman Logan]

obama gave weapons to Mexican drug cartels to kill as many people as they wanted.

1. Obama didn't give them the guns. His peeps allowed them to be bought illegally then tracked them. It's called undercover work, and it's pretty much the only way to unravel criminal organizations.

2. You cannot simultaneously contend that easy access to guns in USA doesn't cause killings, and at the same time claim that these particular guns caused the murders in Mexico.

Do I think the gunrunning was a bad idea? Yes. But it didn't cause those people to be killed.

Anymore than the gift of a.45 to the idiot in Charleston caused the murder of those people.

[SJackson]

It’s my understanding they weren’t tracked to any significant extent under Obama. They did under GWB’s program, but that was very limited. Of course when the program first hit the news, the local federal attorney blamed it on our lax gun laws.

[tacticalogic]

It's called undercover work, and it's pretty much the only way to unravel criminal organizations.

Is that what they were doing? Or was that just their cover story for manufacturing evidence of a "river of iron" flowing into Mexico, that could be used to justify more gun control regulations?

[minnesota_bound]

They were not tracked. The only way it was found out where the guns came from was when the weapons were found by the bodies.

[SJackson]

Anymore than the gift of a.45 to the idiot in Charleston caused the murder of those people.No, it didn't cause it, but dad may have bigger problems than being an idiot. The kids lawyer is describing him as "Just a normal kid", the lawyer representing him on a possession of a controlled substance charge dating to March. I doubt he could have legally made the purchase (addiction?, charged with crime over one year sentence?) which means dad is going to have a problem.