Americans have a strong sense of fairness. They are repelled by the idea of punishing the innocent while rewarding the guilty. Unfortunately, a federal law enforcement agency may be doing just that to people involved in the Fast and Furious scandal.
Through the neglect and malfeasance of public officials, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives encouraged Arizona gun dealers to sell weapons to suspicious characters. They then allowed about 2,000 of these guns to be smuggled into Mexico to a drug cartel that has been waging an all-out war against its rivals and the Mexican government, which knew nothing of the operation. The scandal first saw daylight after a U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed in a shoot-out involving one of the guns in question.
