Inevitable.

As we’ve been saying, Fast and Furious was intended to give the administration fodder to push for tighter gun control. More violent crimes in Mexico committed with weapons originating in America would provide an excuse for cracking-down on Second Amendment rights. Unfortunately for the administration that wasn’t happening organically, so they had to resort to artificial increases in the crime rate by smuggling weapons to drug cartels.

Here’s the stupid thing, though: The administration has to know there’s absolutely no shot in hell that more gun control passes Congress at this point. Even if you could get the Republican-controlled House to pass it (don’t make me laugh), it’d never pass the Senate. Every Republican would vote against it and they’d be joined by Democrats like Pryor, Rockefeller, and Webb. If it got 45 votes in the Senate it’d be a miracle. Plus, polls show Americans less and less supportive of tight gun control, and even those who do support it tend to think we have the right amount as of now.

I have a better shot at the White House next year than Obama does of getting more gun control. So the administration knows it’s not actually happening. They f-ed up Fast & Furious and now, with their plot exposed, nothing is going to happen for quite some time. Which means this is just about distracting from the deadly scandal. But how is that smart? It just confirms what conservatives have been saying was the real purpose of Fast & Furious. So what is Holder & Co. thinking here?

This:

“Today, I would like to correct some of the inaccurate — and irresponsible — accusations surrounding Fast and Furious,” Holder’s prepared testimony reads. “Some of the overheated rhetoric might lead you to believe that this local, Arizona-based operation was somehow the cause of the epidemic of gun violence in Mexico. In fact, Fast and Furious was a flawed response to, not the cause of, the flow of illegal guns from the United States into Mexico.”

In other words, he’s still trying to convince people the myth of American weapons being the cause of Mexico’s problems is true. The myth was debunked long ago quite prominently, which is why the administration was forced to resort to artificial violence inflation.

In his testimony, Holder also advocates for new gun-control laws that he says would have halted, or at least prevented, Operation Fast and Furious. Holder echoes California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s comments from last week, when she argued that stricter gun laws would have stopped law enforcement agents from facilitating the sale of guns to Mexican drug cartels.

“Unfortunately, earlier this year the House of Representatives actually voted to keep law enforcement in the dark when individuals purchase multiple semi-automatic rifles and shotguns in Southwest border gun shops,” Holder’s written testimony declares. “Providing law enforcement with the tools to detect and disrupt illegal gun trafficking is entirely consistent with the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens and it is critical to addressing the public safety crisis on the Southwest border.”

So what they’re saying is, unless you want the government funneling assault weapons to drug cartels who in turn kill American citizens, then you’re going to have to accept more infringements on the Second Amendment.

Here’s a counter-proposal: I get to keep my Second Amendment rights and the federal government stops corruptly handing over thousands of weapons to Mexican drug cartels. It’s a win-win!

Basically the argument is that we need to accept more government control and violations of basic constitutional rights in order to stop our corrupt and inept federal government from conducting corrupt and inept operations.

For some reason I doubt that’s a winning argument. And I’m sure senators will inform Holder of as much — just as soon as they stop laughing.