Some truth about the American Guns and their influence on crime in Mexico.
It was with Great fanfare a few weeks ago, that the US Attorney General declared that 90% of the illegal guns in Mexico come from the United States, and because of this we need to ban “Assault Rifles” in the United States…Again. This Statistic was repeated again and again by Secretary of State Hillary, the Brady campaign, and of course the media. It has been testified to in Congress. Yup, it was now official the US is responsible for 90% of the illegal guns in Mexico!
The only problem is, that number is neither true, nor accurate. According to the ATF the number is closer to about 17%.
Click here to read the Article.
Click here to watch the video as well.
Now that you know the truth, please feel free to pass it on to all of your friends, and don’t hold your breath waiting for a correction or an apology, from Mexico, the US attorney general, Hillary, Congress, or any other assorted leftist, or Freedom Hating Nazis.
I am dead-set against gun control of any kind, I just do not like the likes of you distorting statements to further that cause.
I suggest you read the article, and then quite exactly what the AG said.
“…is that over 90 percent of the **traced** firearms originate from the U.S.”
Any chance you can produce a quote from the AG that claims that his statement was for untraced and traced guns? Any chance you explaining how the AG can even comment on untraced guns? Heck, if he had, then you would probably be up in arms claiming that it was hogwash since no one can actually know anything about untraced guns!
Even the opening statement on that FOX News article corroborates the 90% figure.
*No wonder there is an ammunition shortage
in the US. They are sending it all to Mexico!
There is little doubt that the FED Machine has
gone into overdrive. One thing good they do is
keep good stats. We need to keep a very close
watch on both the number and type of firearms
that coming out of our border states. The RPG’s
and Grenades however…seem to be coming from
elsewhere! Like old Eastern block players…as
usual. They are very good at what they do!
Truthfully, we are quite impressed with the
effort that DHS,BATF,DEA and a dozen unnamed
special groups are putting into the effort. In
fact, we have never seen a effort like this in
our memory! Hopefully, the DOJ legal teams will
be as large, as active and as motivated!
Simpleton, I think what bigmarkod means is this: Even if the statistic is technically accurate while using the “traced” qualifier, it is meaningless because ~85% the guns aren’t able to be “traced”, as they don’t have any identifying information.
For instance, if someone was buying guns from a corrupt Mexican police chief, you can be certain that all of the serials were filed off long before they were transferred – the weapon becomes untraceable, and avoids being counted in this misunderstood statistic.
In other words, 90% of 19% of guns come from the United States.
Travis,
I understood what bigmarkrod meant.
I stand by my comments. It’d be useful if you spent time understanding what I said.
One more time, since you missed it:
“…is that over 90 percent of the **traced** firearms originate from the U.S.”