GREAT coverage of guns and Mexico

"There's lies, damned lies, and statistics."

Let's see if anyone besides the LA Times (who was kudo'd) runs with it....

I believe that there is far more of this issue remaining to be developed and communicated.

http://www.examiner.com/x-1417-Gun-Rights-
Examiner~y2009m4d2-Do-US-government-arms-exports-play-a-part-in-arming-Mexican-cartels

Perhaps the main point of the article above is one that's not yet being discussed elsewhere.

Regardless what proportion of cartel arms originate in the US, the primary question is this:

Of those cartel arms and munitions that originated from the United States, what proportion originated from the civilian arms market, and what proportion originated from State and Defense Department authorized governmental arms sales to foreign nations (Mexico, Central, and South America)?

Secondarily, the point of the article is to communicate that it's absurd, and wholly unacceptable, that any new prohibition on US civilian firearms purchase and possession be predicated on the misuse of arms by foreign criminals, and particularly, when it's likely that our own government authorized sales of those very arms to foreign nations.

Finally, don't forget that all this discussion takes place under a guarantee of law, which reads "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." Not to mention the Heller decision, which made clear that commonly owned firearms (such as non-military semiautomatic "assault weapons") meet the criteria of protected arms.

Fox News has some recent coverage, entitled "The Myth of 90 Percent: Only a Small Fraction of Guns in Mexico Come From U.S." But the article largely fails to develop the distinction between civilian market arms and inter-government market arms. The distinction, and the associated data, is crucial to any meaningful discussion of this issue, and any policy based on such a discussion.

Just this past Sunday in a round table talk on fox news. One of the guest stated that only a small part of the firearms in Mexico come from the US. One of the talking heads whom is a guest on fox news Juan whatever his last name is. Said that 90 percent is the correct number and want on with the full on liberal line of BS. I turned off fox news and haven't tuned back in. Fox news has a bad habit of taking decent Americans thunder and spinning it. Look at Glenn Beck taking the thunder on FEMA camps and using a jack a$$ to counter FEMA camps with BS. This in MHO is being done with full intent to take the sheeple off guard and get their mind set to block out information as propaganda. Using the First Amendment to feed propaganda so the Constitution can be destroyed by evil is treason. But I'm not a lawyer, I'm the guy who gets in the jury box, guilty! LOL!

Great find! Thanks, Dave.

Like most gun control ideas, this one fly right into the face of logic, gets caught in the engines, and the plane crashes (and not into the Hudson).

How could anyone believe for even one second that an illegal organization could or would buy arms piecemeal like that? It would be a logistical nightmare! If you’re going to supply an army, you want to buy a lot of guns all at once. Then you commonality of parts and ammunition as well as having your troops are all armed at the same time. I guess the idiots that spew this nonsense haven’t been in a gun store lately, but you’d be hard pressed to arm an army of three with the same type of weapon if you shopped there.

The idiots that spew this garbage haven't touched a firearm.

As I have continuously written ALL over the net since the first appearance of this "news", those drug dealers must be REALLY dumb if they buy NFA weapons in the US for about $14k per pop when they can get them throughout most of the world for about $15 a piece with no background check.

Tiochfaidh ar la!