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alan · January 16, 2012, 12:15 AM

Below is a copy of my Letter to the Editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette re a Washington Post by-lined article appearing in 15 January Post-Gazette. The article was headlined Obama's gun dealer reporting regulastions are upheld, wjch I think is germane to this discussion. Should any of the moderators heree fel that the comment would be beetter locatef relsewhere, possibly under a different heading, that's your call, relocate it.

----- Original Message -----
From: alan
To: Post Gazette
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 5:46 PM
Subject: thoughts onObama's gun dealer reporting regulations are upheld, 15 Jan P-G, main section, by-lined The Washington Post

Editor:

Re the ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Rosemary Collyer in the referenced case, a suit brought against Obama ordered gun purchase reporting, note the following.

1. The Congress has repeatedly, and wisely refused to legislate any sort of centralized gun registration scheme. The routine dreamed up by the Obama Administration, its' DOJ and the ATF amount to a large step toward the creation of such a centralized gun registry, clearly a case of grievous abuse of executive power.

2. As for problems attributable to the the illegal transit of firearms from the U.S. to Mexico, the "Gun Walking" aided and abetted by DOJ and ATF is clearly a case of bureaucratic stupidity, combined with bureaucratic criminality, criminality that contributed to the death of at least one U.S. Law Enforcement Agent, a Border Patrol Officer killed in a shoot-out with what one assumes were Mexican Narco Bandits, though they might simply have been armed Mexican criminals.

3. "ATF acted rationally" said Judge Collyer. For the ATF, "rational action" would be something of a break from long established tradition, but one supposes that the judge, like everyone else is entitled to her own opinion. On this subject however, one if given to recall an observation attributed to the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, of the U.S. Senate. Moynihan once noted that "while people are entitled to their own opinions, they are not entitled to their own facts". Judge Collyer needs to think on this.

4. With respect to the foregoing, while there is no doubt whatever that something was going on in, or through the mind of Judge Collyer when she came up with her ruling, one can only wonder as to exactly that might have been, the facts of the matter being what they so obviously are.

January 16, 2012, 12:15 AM	#1823
alan Senior Member Join Date: June 7, 1999 Posts: 3,847	Below is a copy of my Letter to the Editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette re a Washington Post by-lined article appearing in 15 January Post-Gazette. The article was headlined Obama's gun dealer reporting regulastions are upheld, wjch I think is germane to this discussion. Should any of the moderators heree fel that the comment would be beetter locatef relsewhere, possibly under a different heading, that's your call, relocate it. ----- Original Message ----- From: alan To: Post Gazette Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 5:46 PM Subject: thoughts onObama's gun dealer reporting regulations are upheld, 15 Jan P-G, main section, by-lined The Washington Post Editor: Re the ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Rosemary Collyer in the referenced case, a suit brought against Obama ordered gun purchase reporting, note the following. 1. The Congress has repeatedly, and wisely refused to legislate any sort of centralized gun registration scheme. The routine dreamed up by the Obama Administration, its' DOJ and the ATF amount to a large step toward the creation of such a centralized gun registry, clearly a case of grievous abuse of executive power. 2. As for problems attributable to the the illegal transit of firearms from the U.S. to Mexico, the "Gun Walking" aided and abetted by DOJ and ATF is clearly a case of bureaucratic stupidity, combined with bureaucratic criminality, criminality that contributed to the death of at least one U.S. Law Enforcement Agent, a Border Patrol Officer killed in a shoot-out with what one assumes were Mexican Narco Bandits, though they might simply have been armed Mexican criminals. 3. "ATF acted rationally" said Judge Collyer. For the ATF, "rational action" would be something of a break from long established tradition, but one supposes that the judge, like everyone else is entitled to her own opinion. On this subject however, one if given to recall an observation attributed to the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, of the U.S. Senate. Moynihan once noted that "while people are entitled to their own opinions, they are not entitled to their own facts". Judge Collyer needs to think on this. 4. With respect to the foregoing, while there is no doubt whatever that something was going on in, or through the mind of Judge Collyer when she came up with her ruling, one can only wonder as to exactly that might have been, the facts of the matter being what they so obviously are.