In the meantime, three Democratic senators have released a report finding that an overwhelming majority of the firearms used in crimes in Mexico originated in the US.Think that one through for a second and you'll see the bullshit. The only weapons that are going to be submitted for a trace are those that they might think came from the US. They won't trace weapons that were "stolen" from the Mexican army or police. They won't trace fully-automatic weapons. So of a selection of confiscated weapons, among those that the Mexicans thought came from the US, 70% did.
According to the report, released last week by Sens. Dianne Feinstein of California, Charles Schumer of New York, and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, an ATF study of 2009 and 2010 crimes in Mexico involving firearms found that 70 percent of the traced weapons have a US source.
That is a far, far cry from the implications proffered by Schumer, Feinstein and Whitehouse, which is 70% of all guns confiscated by the Mexicans came from the US.
How many of the guns confiscated are submitted for tracing? Your guess is as good as mine, but I've seen no numbers above 30%. So, 70% of 30% is 21% overall, at best. It could be as low as 12%.
But "70% of all guns seized in Mexico are from the US" is what the gun-control freakazoids will scream, the press will parrot it, but it is a bald-faced lie. Anyone who says that is either a liar or a fool.
Then again the BATFe is responsible for
ReplyDeletefirearms to the tune of some 2500 that did tgo to Mexico and one ended up killing a border patrol agent.
Look up "gun walker" or "Fast and furious"..
But then again the bradites have nothing to say on the BATFEs role or even anything resembling the truth.
Eck!
Oh one other thing..
ReplyDeleteUS gun shops do not sell automatic weapons or grenade or RPGs.. However every cache of Mexican arms found and reported has all of those with the common source being the Mexican police and military.
The gun banners ignore that minor detail.
Eck!
What difference does it make whether the weapons were stolen from the police or imported from the US or both? They kill either way.
ReplyDeleteTo get a clear understanding of the relationship of gun fatalities and lax gun laws compare the statistics for the USA and Australia -
USA (2001) - 3.98 gun deaths per 100000
Australia - Australia (2001)- 0.24 deaths per 100000*
After carrying an SLR L1A1 (the Australian version of the Belgian FN FAL) in Vietnam I know what modern semi-autos can do.
(* Source - Small arms/firearms Education and Research Network - Toronto - 2005)