Spaceballs
Active Member
The video is in that Twitter link
Just... wow. Dude says he isn't prepared to define "assault weapon" because he isn't an expert on guns
Maybe he REALLY understands the alcohol and tobacco part of the job to make up for it?
Head of ATF says he is not a gun expert
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The video is in that Twitter link
Just... wow. Dude says he isn't prepared to define "assault weapon" because he isn't an expert on guns
Maybe he REALLY understands the alcohol and tobacco part of the job to make up for it?
Makes perfect sense and explains oh so much.
Shoot, I already knowed that.
Kman
Blah, blah, blah
"I'm a fascist, not a guntard."
**** Yup this. I mean hey, Whoopi said “Dr. Jill Biden” would make a great Surgeon General…
Political appointees don’t necessarily have to have expertise in the subject matter of the department they head - there’s staff for that.
We could potentially have a defense secretary that has never been in the military and is a pacifist, or a transportation secretary who has no license to drive and rides a bike everywhere, or a Secretary of State that hates traveling and has never been out of the country, or a secretary of the interior who is an outdoorsmen, and hates the indoors!
We already have a Supreme Court justice who is a woman, who can’t define what a woman is… There’s staff for all those minor inconsequential details…
^^^This.
Though he is of the same ilk of those drafting bills on the subject of gun control.
thomfantomas
Crna Ovca
Eta fakt
possumman
Ultimate Member
Maybe he is an alcohol expert--or at least hangs out at some bars
Trepang
Ultimate Member
LOOK QUICK - A 100% accurate statement from the ATF
Blacksmith101
Grumpy Old Man
- Jun 22, 2012
- 22,366
Bud Light Taste Tester!
...or at least smelled a beer once.
owldo
Ultimate Member
He’s just a living, breathing metaphor for the entire Biden Administration.
MattFinals718
Active Member
All true; this guy is certainly not unique in that regard. Most Cabinet Secretaries were chosen for political loyalty, not expertise on the laws, regulations, or processes that are enforced or implemented by the departments that they run.
That being said, it's still perfectly legitimate to be worried about a Cabinet Secretary who openly admits their ignorance in public, the way that Dettelbach did. Over the years, I've been to many speaking events in DC featuring Secretaries (or Under-Secretaries, or Assistant Secretaries), and I usually associate folks who cannot answer basic questions from the audience like "how do you define an assault weapon" with incompetence. If someone is too intellectually lazy to even try to answer a question like that, it's usually a sign that they're intellectually lazy in other aspects of their job (and life).
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Yep. Just a figure head
Biggfoot44
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- Aug 2, 2009
- 33,517
There is a school of thought that the most important factor of being the ( Head of Whatever ) is Management Skills .
Visualize the opposite: A super geeky technical expert , that can't set budgets, allocate resources, and handle the logistics and support infrastructure, will quickly crash & burn .
In an organization of more than single digit people , the head person at top actually does little or nothing of ( the inherent purpose of the Organization ) . They do the administration, public relations, and politicing.
Ideally the Head should have a basic concept of what's going , to be able to set priorities of the minions, and be able to give a non commit al public comment without obviously putting Foot in Mouth.
Visualize the opposite: A super geeky technical expert , that can't set budgets, allocate resources, and handle the logistics and support infrastructure, will quickly crash & burn .
In an organization of more than single digit people , the head person at top actually does little or nothing of ( the inherent purpose of the Organization ) . They do the administration, public relations, and politicing.
Ideally the Head should have a basic concept of what's going , to be able to set priorities of the minions, and be able to give a non commit al public comment without obviously putting Foot in Mouth.
