I love the way the play with the language. They write with sufficient outrage, but they are careful not to be untruthful.
Notice that they do not say that the guns were sent to Latin America illegally as they could get in the realm of defamation. But their average unsatisfied Mom will read exactly that and picture late night truck runs full of machine pistols from the factories to the Mexican border where they are transferred across the border by poor illegal aliens seeking to make a better life for themselves in the US doing the jobs US Citizens will not do.
This is the equivalent of me demanding a law because I am shocked to discover that 70% the food in my neighborhood is bought at the local WalMart Superstore and the rest is equally divided among WinnDixie, Publix and Navarro’s.
Dear Moms, re-bury this particular horse before the stench gets in the draperies.
You crafted a very nice piece of fiction your facts are slightly off . Oh and your hero in the white house is the number 1 gun runner in the world today . Your dream laws do nothing to criminals and in the end only impact law abiding people who quite frankly are starting to get sick the useless liberal rantings
Straight out of the anti-gun activism for dummies page 64 & 65
Isn’t that 70% thing a double gotcha? The “70%” they quote is guns that _can even be traced_ and only the US has the data they want or the date they use. The real percentage of guns in Mexico and the carribean from the US is a much smaller number, around 10% IIRC. It’s like saying “of the guns we can possibly trace to the US, 70% can be traced”
I think the number is in the single digits if you happen to know the real number of weapons confiscated. In 2009 that amount was over 300,000 weapons.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/30603909/#.UgJ1Sm2zY3x
Funny that NBC never mentions its own article, ain’t it?
As previously stated, the 70% figure is NOT true, unless it is accompanied by some rather hefty qualifiers. It is not 70% of firearms recovered in Mexico. It is not even 70% of firearms that can be traced. It is 70% of the firearms they -believed- they could trace to the United States. It is 70% of the serial numbers they -submitted- to the ATF. I think percentage of guns submitted was either single digits or low teens. It wasn’t very much.
There was no point in submitting weapons that had “Properidad de Los Estados Unidos De Mexico” or “Importado de Venezuela” stamped on them. That crate of brand-new AKs with the cyrillic or chinese lettering all over it also didn’t come from the US. They might have serial numbers. But the ATF never saw them.