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John Ross Offers to Serve as ATF Director

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John Ross as ATF Director? Awesome to contemplate.
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Now that would be a pick!
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Color me uneducated, but who is John Ross?
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Look up the book titled "Unintended Consequences" by John Ross.
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These statistics clearly show that it is imperative that a BATFE Director be intimately familiar with the areas where BATFE spends 98% of its budget, namely Firearms and Explosives. Even more importantly, the new Director must be sensitive to the legal and cultural issues that exist in the interplay between the Agency he directs and the citizens with whom it interacts.

I am that person. I will bring experience to the job, and restore credibility to this tarnished Agency.

Sincerely yours,

John Ross
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I'd rather see Larry Pratt in that role. :)
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bignflnut wrote:
These statistics clearly show that it is imperative that a BATFE Director be intimately familiar with the areas where BATFE spends 98% of its budget, namely Firearms and Explosives. Even more importantly, the new Director must be sensitive to the legal and cultural issues that exist in the interplay between the Agency he directs and the citizens with whom it interacts.

I am that person. I will bring experience to the job, and restore credibility to this tarnished Agency.

Sincerely yours,

John Ross
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A snippet from his letter:

"The position I’d like to fill is Director of BATFE. This would dovetail well with your policy of appointing established critics of various troubled agencies (EPA, HUD, etc.) as the people to best lead them, reform them, or, in some cases, oversee their dissolution. " (emphasis added)
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Maybe, but I'm ok with regulating explosives. It could just be the BoE?
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I'm ok with regulating explosives also. Realizing of course that preventing explosives from being made and used by criminals or terrorists is a lost cause.

So just make regulating explosives a function of the FBI or homeland security and eliminate the whole BATFE.
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