Why Holder needs to be held in contempt

I have been watching the case of Fast-And-Furious (FAF) being played out in Congress for some time now.  The left of course has called this a "witch hunt", but their argument doesn't hold water because in this case a man is dead.  Shot by a gun that was the product of FAF and therefore it is a criminal investigation.

Many democrats have tried to make the case that "the mexican drug smugglers would have used any gun to kill the border agent and it just HAPPENED to be a gun from FAF.   This argument doesn't hold water either for the following reason.

I am a gun owner and so is my son.  If one of my son's friends came over to the house and stole my son's gun and then went and used it to hold up a liquor store and in the process killed the owner.  The friend would be charged with murder but the case would not stop there.  The police would then also have to investigate HOW he obtained the gun since it was not his in the first place.  They would check the serial number and find it was my son's gun and he would be questioned as to HOW his friend walked off with it and why the gun was not secured in a safe or at least with a trigger lock.  He could be charged with criminal negligence and be fined or even jailed for his involvement in the murder case.  A lawyer could not assert that "It just happened to be his gun..the boy would have used anyone's gun ... it just happened to be his gun".

In the case of FAF, the reason the gun "walked" was because of a stupid ATF program that never should have seen the light of day.  Their recklessness played a major part in the death of the border patrol agent (not to mention many of deaths of Mexican citizens too) and needs to be probed to find out who authorized it.   This is criminal negligence on a grand scale because it's not just 1 gun that walked but 2000 guns in total.

If we citizens must be held responsible for OUR guns, then so also the Federal Government needs to be held accountable for their guns.