Fast and Furious Hits Law and Order SVU

Law & Order SVU is not a gun-friendly show. The characters regularly make light of violating 2A rights, harassing individuals who follow NYC's draconian gun laws. "OMG they own a gun! They must be the perp!" In addition, you see the officers do things that us plebs could never do, like carry into a bar and get trashed and then draw down on the feds with no adverse consequences.

Even this antigun TV show had a Fast and Furious episode. The most recent, number 288, "Child's Welfare," included a murderer who was given his gun by an ATF agent as part of a program to arm Mexican drug cartels. The main characters even condemned the operation! And cited Brian Terry! Shocking! Seriously, when you've lost the liberal TV cops of Law & Order, I think you've lost the PR battle on a firearms related issue.

Of course, in TV land, the Evil ATF agent ended up being arrested and then killed in the "holding tank" by the child of a woman murdered by a perp with the ATF-provided gun. The arrest, awesome; murder by a tween, while perhaps satisfying in a work of art as an act of vengeance, obviously not so good (or legal). In real life, of course, the leaders at ATF and justice department covered up the crimes committed by their agency, there is no justice for the victims of hundreds of victims of ATF-facilitated violent crime, and the administration and gun control hacks still support "Fast and Furious" as a legitimate operation which we apparently need more of. Because what could go wrong by shipping guns by the thousands to felonious drug cartels?

Of course, one of the main characters (Elliot) takes out the tween girl as she moves in for the finishing shot. Of course, the tween shooting one handed manages to hit every single good cop in the room but can't finish off the bad guy. I have a feeling that the character will now have such emotional trauma that he removes himself from the series (also, his contract wasn't renewed).