Thread: Eric Holder has a gun problem

Eric Holder has a gun problem

By Jordy Yager - 11/05/11 12:00 PM ET


Eric Holder has a gun problem.


As the chief law enforcement officer Attorney General Eric Holder came out swinging in the first months of the Obama administration as he pushed to reinstate the assault weapons ban, pointing to the rising levels of violence in Mexico and increased presence of U.S. guns south of the border.

But nearly two years later assault weapons can still be bought and Holder has found himself at the center of a quagmire involving a botched gun-tracking operation that sent thousands of high-powered firearms to Mexico in the hands of known or suspected straw buyers for drug cartels.

Amid a plethora of Republican calls for Holder’s resignation, Democrats have silently indicated their support for the attorney general. Instead of taking him to task for Operation Fast and Furious, Democratic lawmakers have tried to draw attention to what they describe as the country’s weak network of gun laws.

Starting next week and stretching into December, Holder is likely to experience the most intense heat yet. Republicans on the Senate and House Judiciary Committees plan to grill him on whether he knew about the controversial “gun walkingâ€

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I'm impressed with a columnist who will use above average vocabulary! Plethora and quagmire are not what you find in your run of the mill articles. Good work Jordy Yager. Thought for a minute I was reading a news article from 20-30 years ago, when writers still used vocabulary.

Holder needs to be taken down!!!!

Dixie

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