“During 2009 and 2010, 70 percent of the 30,000 guns that were recovered by authorities in Mexico were determined to have come from inside the United States.
Now we know why.”
Sorry to have to tell you, but your statement above is VERY wrong!
30,000 guns may have been recovered in Mex., but only a fraction of those came from the U.S.
The Mex. gov. can tell which guns were U.S. manufactured by looking at the serial number range, of THAT FRACTION 70% may have been CONFIRMED to have come from the U.S.
Bear in mind, guns lawfully sold to the Mex. government, then diverted to gangs, also “came from the U.S.”
As I recall the actual number of guns smuggled to Mexico from the U.S. is under 20% of the total.
Remember, the cartels get plenty of drugs from So. American countries who’s economy is worse than theirs, they get weapons from them too.
Many of these weapons were also originally lawfully sold to So. American governments, so technically they also “came from the U.S.”, but they were not smuggled across OUR border by cartel agents!
Automatic weapons, rocket launchers, and grenades are NOT coming from U.S. gun-shops!
Hugo Chavez is arming Mexican cartels and “Indian” groups to destabilize Mexico, he would like to make Mex. his puppet socialist state, or at least make life more miserable for the U.S. with a failed state on their border.
Accuracy is important, particularly when addressing members of congress.
Please do not become an unwitting agent for the BATFE/Gun grabbers/liberal media.
I just noticed I did not source this article. It was from “The American Dream” at:
I assumed that the comment about 70% OF the 30,000 guns are coming from the US—they were being sarcastic. I’m sure your right about the numbers. If I pass this on again I will put a comment in there about the numbers being totally wrong. Thanks