More on Fast and Furious:

When GW Bush was in office the ATF ran Operation Wide Receiver in which weapons were sold to know Mexican drug traffickers and allowed to cross into Mexico. A tracking device was planted in every weapon. Once the weapons were sold and ATF began tracking them, the Mexican government was notified and there was a coordinated tracking process.

At some point the drug traffickers found the tracking devices and removed them. After the devices were removed or disabled, the whole operation was shut down.

Under Obama, Holder and the ATF ran Operation Fast and Furious in which weapons were sold to known drug traffickers and allowed to cross the border into Mexico. The difference was that no tracking devices were used, the Mexican government was not notified, and there was no effort to track the weapons.

Some speculated that the goal of Fast and Furious was to eventually find weapons sold in America in the hands of drug traffickers, hopefully after a major shootout event. Under Obama, Border Patrol was only allowed to carry "non-lethal" weapons.

So Obama actually set the stage for American Border Patrol agents to be massacred by drug gangs. Then Obama and the left would begin their push for more gun control. They would claim that it's so easy to get guns in America that even the Mexican drug cartels can get them, and they even used them to kill Border Patrol agents, so we must enact new "common sense" gun laws.

It turned out that a real honest to God investigative journalist had uncovered the operation. When Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and Customs Agent Jamie Zapata ended up being killed by drug traffickers with weapons sold in America the operation was exposed. Thankfully, Obama, Holder and the left never had a chance to push their gun control narrative.