Gun Prosecutions Fall 25% under Obama

[uncle money bags]

U.S. attorneys have been slowing gun prosecutions even further, with 2,598 brought in the first seven months of this fiscal year. The pace of activity puts the Justice Department on track to prosecute the fewest ATF cases since 2000, well before the drug gang wars in Mexico sharply increased violence on both sides of the border.

“We have this irony. The Obama administration, which is asking for more in the way of gun regulations — in terms of increased background checks for private sales and at gun shows — is actually prosecuting less of the gun laws already on the books,” said Robert Cottrol, a gun control historian at George Washington University. “For a lot of people, there’s more ideological cache harassing Bubba at the gun show than getting a handle on gun crime.”



http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/23/despite-rhetoric-gun-prosecutions-plummet-under-ob/

 

[bahammer]

It always seems to be about political posturing and not about solving the problem.

 

[Glocktogo]

Didn't you know? Prosecuting gun crimes at the federal level is racist!

 

[Grindstone]

Why enforce current laws when you can just make a bunch of new ones and parade them around as if you're actually doing something?

 

[dennishoddy]

They don't want to enforce the laws already on the books. Holder would be in prison if they did.

 

[mtnboomer]

They don't want to enforce the laws already on the books. Holder would be in prison if they did.

As would hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens.

 

[Fredkrueger100]

Why enforce current laws when you can just make a bunch of new ones and parade them around as if you're actually doing something?

Exactly. That is all this administration wants to do. Or has done.