Many things caused the potentially life-saving operation to fail and caused it to be an operation that cost the life of a Border Patrol agent. Although the operation had a good objective there was no chance of success in the sense that not everything was thought out and executed correctly. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “In the end, we will remember, not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” in the case of firearms or Operation Fast and Furious one could say that the government is the silent friend that stands by and does nothing. The murder, as horrible as it may seem, will be forgotten by the country, but the government that gives cartels firearms passive action will never be