Who Counts?

I don’t know why the N.R.A.
Found fault with Fast and Furious
And through elected pawns makes hay
Of what strikes me as spurious:
Concern for turning weapons loose
That vanished in a roundup ruse.

A couple of them reappeared
Where Boarder Agent Terry lay,
Shot dead by smugglers as they steered
Narcotics to the USA,
A mart as ravenous for tons
As Mexican cartels for guns.

The House Republicans, helped out
By scatterings of Democrats,
Who, frightened by the gun crowd’s clout
Engage in one of  D.C.’s spats
To make the other party look
As though forthrightness it forsook.

Attorney General Holder’s held,
For nondisclosure, in contempt
Although the president repelled
Release of records deemed exempt
For lack, he said, of  relevance.
If so, this even make less sense.

For why an N.R.A. big spiel?
One mortal AK47
That killed one agent? So, big deal!
Its members dwell in seventh heaven.
A ban on selling them is gone.
A thousand victims yield their yawn.