Posted on 04/23/2009 3:23:12 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
With growing violence on the U.S.-Mexico border fueled by powerful drug cartels, officials from both countries have been repeating a shocking statistic to suggest this isn't just a Mexican problem.
But Obama, Clinton and others have left out important qualifiers when citing the 90 percent statistic, which originates from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The agency doesn't have statistics for all weapons in Mexico, where gun sales are largely prohibited; it is based on only guns that the Mexican government sent to the ATF for tracing and that the ATF found were traceable.
(Excerpt) Read more at politifact.com ...
LLS
That... and... well... mexicans themselves.
LLS
I am sick of mexico and what it is doing to my Nation... Illegal mexicans are criminals... legal hispanic citizens are brothers and sisters.
LLS
me thinks this magic negro is a dumbass.
"a large percentage of the guns recovered in Mexico do not get sent back to the U.S. for tracing, because it is obvious from their markings that they do not come from the U.S."But then, Obunko never met a fact he couldn't distort.
He knows exactly what he is doing...his plan is to take your guns, not get the facts straight.
Read previous post, the 90% is from the guns Mexico submitted to ATF for identification, NOT 90% of all guns found in Mexico.
The actual percentage is 17% of ALL guns found at Mex. crime scenes were “traceable” to USA.(total is 5,114 out of 29,000)
As the saying goes, “figures don't lie, but many liars figure”.
Kinda hard to believe in light of the fact that 90% of guns sold in the US don’t even come from the US.
"In fact, 90 percent of the firearms recovered in Mexico, and which are then successfully traced, were determined to have originated from various sources within the continental U.S." [Emphasis Added.]
Forget about the 90% number. The real sham is that the 0bama et al.continues to claim that 90% of the firearms are illegally purchased in the United States and smuggled across the border. I suspect, however, that a significant number of the firearms were legitimately provided by or on behalf of the United States government to the Mexican military and Mexican police forces, and as a result of institutional corruption at all levels of the Mexican government, the firearms ended up in the hands of the drug cartels and other criminals. I also suspect that the Mexican government only submits a third of the guns recovered at crime scenes to the ATF for tracing because a significant number of the remaining two-thirds of recovered firearms would trace back to the Mexcian government.
I’d love to see some of his acorn tugs try to take my sons and my guns.
Note guns, meaning more than one.
I never trust a number I read in an article written by a journalist. They haven’t a clue about numbers. Percentages are rocket science to them.
If the people who go into journalism understood numbers, they would chose a different occupation.
like Jason Blair
I’m not aware of ANY firearms manufacturing companies in Mexico so of course ANY guns have to come from somewhere.
Historically most guns in Mexico come from their nearest neighbor with a ready supply of manufactured arms.
All those AK47’s and RPG’s keep getting shipped down there from DC?
Well shucks if that’s the case and all those confiscated guns came from the U.S., I think they should be recycled into our economy—some of those guns are getting hard to find!
The problem is that for many in the media, they're no longer reporting but advocacy groups. They're willing to manipulate the information they report to get a specific societal and political outcome, which has become all to apparent in the last election. But it goes back much farther in time: Back in the 1980s, when Time magazine ran their "Death By Gun" coordinated attack (along with HBO), there was outrage by gun owners. Time responded that gun control was too important an issue to society, and they had a social responsibility to try to get the most draconian gun control laws passed.
This really isn't anything new. The MSM will knowingly lie about this sort of thing.
Mark
Lies, d@mn lies, and statistics.. and then, several light years beyond, there’s this utter horse sh1t.
And since WHEN are Americans responsible for the fact that the Mexicans can’t manage their own %#*&%# affairs?
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