More Mexican Gun Lies
Claim: It is estimated that at least 90% of the guns used by the Mexican drug trafficking organisations have come from the US.
But, of course, the truth is a bit different.
A source of the guns used by the cartels in Mexico is the US. But not gun shows:
The deadliest of the weapons now in the hands of criminal groups in Mexico, particularly along the U.S. border, by any reasonable standard of an analysis of the facts, appear to be getting into that nation through perfectly legal private-sector arms exports, measured in the billions of dollars, and sanctioned by our own State Department. These deadly trade commodities — grenade launchers, explosives and “assault” weapons –are then, in quantities that can fill warehouses, being corruptly transferred to drug trafficking organizations via their reach into the Mexican military and law enforcement agencies, the evidence indicates.
March 31st, 2009 at 11:01 am
That’s how the media sees it – technically, those weapons are from the US.
It’s not their fault that Joe Average thinks they come from gun shops now, is it?
March 31st, 2009 at 11:03 am
Joe Average is not buying it.
March 31st, 2009 at 11:32 am
Stop! You’re clouding the media’s obfuscation with facts!
March 31st, 2009 at 1:46 pm
It appears that journalists have never taken a logic class.
March 31st, 2009 at 4:26 pm
The same thing is happening in Gaza. Our tax dollars are being used by our government to stock Hamas’ arsenals. Before long I expect to hear, “Over X% of Hamas weaponry came from the U.S., probably from gun shows. The BATF is investigating several American gun dealers…”