If you tell them what I did about Mexico they will respond "Yeah, they get all their guns from the U.S. because we're a gun-crazy country!" Don't let them slide on that BS.
Mexico's Gun Supply and the 90 Percent MythAs we discussed in a previous analysis, the 90 percent number was derived from a June 2009 U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report to Congress on U.S. efforts to combat arms trafficking to Mexico (see external link).
According to the GAO report, some 30,000 firearms were seized from criminals by Mexican authorities in 2008. Of these 30,000 firearms, information pertaining to 7,200 of them (24 percent) was submitted to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for tracing. Of these 7,200 guns, only about 4,000 could be traced by the ATF, and of these 4,000, some 3,480 (87 percent) were shown to have come from the United States.
This means that the 87 percent figure relates to the number of weapons submitted by the Mexican government to the ATF that could be successfully traced are not from the total number of weapons seized by Mexican authorities or even from the total number of weapons submitted to the ATF for tracing. In fact, the 3,480 guns positively traced to the United States equals less than 12 percent of the total arms seized in Mexico in 2008 and less than 48 percent of all those submitted by the Mexican government to the ATF for tracing. This means that almost 90 percent of the guns seized in Mexico in 2008 were not traced back to the United States.
If you bring up the Nazis liberals will tell that’s ancient history and it will never happen here because we are so much more enlightened now
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Not really, because I have usually already turned and walked away. Such people are what I call Flat Earthers.
I wonder what they would think about banning alcohol today, or maybe cigarettes - it would work because we are so enlightened right?
Such people are wrong, but that’s ok with them, because for now, they can live with their ignorance. Every Tyrant in history has used been enabled by such thinking.
If we are so enlightened, I’d like to know why HRC is called the butcher of Libya, by the people who live there.
People who don’t know and understand history are doomed to repeat it.