The Real Revo – by R.D. Walker
Holder’s Justice Department isn’t really all that interested in prosecuting violations of gun laws.
While President Obama decries gun violence and presses for more laws to restrict ownership, his Justice Department has prosecuted 25 percent fewer cases referred by the main law enforcement agency charged with reducing firearms violence across the country, a computer analysis of U.S. prosecution data shows.
Federal prosecutors brought a total of 5,082 gun violation cases in 2013 recommended by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, compared with 6,791 during the last year of George W. Bush’s presidency in 2008, according to data obtained from the Executive Office of U.S. Attorneys.
The 2013 totals represent a 42 percent decline from the record number of 8,752 prosecutions of ATF cases brought by the Justice Department in 2004 under Mr. Bush, according to the data.
It is often argued that there is no need to create new gun laws as long as violations of current laws go unprosecuted. That is true, as far as it goes. The reality, however, is that the administration isn’t really interested in prosecuting violations of gun laws. The administration wants to disarm the populace. New gun laws are designed to disarm the law abiding, not punish those who violate the law.
Again, Obama has no interest in preventing gun crime, his goal is disarmament.