We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi

Mexican Lie Off

by Hal_10000

Oh, you know that story about how 90% of the guns being used in Mexico’s drug war come from America?  Bullshit.

There’s just one problem with the 90 percent “statistic” and it’s a big one:

It’s just not true.

In fact, it’s not even close. The fact is, only 17 percent of guns found at Mexican crime scenes have been traced to the U.S.

What’s true, an ATF spokeswoman told FOXNews.com, in a clarification of the statistic used by her own agency’s assistant director, “is that over 90 percent of the traced firearms originate from the U.S.”

But 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.

“Not every weapon seized in Mexico has a serial number on it that would make it traceable, and the U.S. effort to trace weapons really only extends to weapons that have been in the U.S. market,” Matt Allen, special agent of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), told FOX News.

In 2007-2008, according to ATF Special Agent William Newell, Mexico submitted 11,000 guns to the ATF for tracing. Close to 6,000 were successfully traced—and of those, 90 percent—5,114 to be exact, according to testimony in Congress by William Hoover—were found to have come from the U.S.

But in those same two years, according to the Mexican government, 29,000 guns were recovered at crime scenes.

In other words, 68 percent of the guns that were recovered were never submitted for tracing. And when you weed out the roughly 6,000 guns that could not be traced from the remaining 32 percent, it means 83 percent of the guns found at crime scenes in Mexico could not be traced to the U.S.

Most of the guns are coming from Mexico’s black market, the Russian mob, trickle down from past guerilla wars and defecting members of Mexico’s Army.

Right now, the Left is in retreat on the gun issue.  They have so thoroughly lost on the issue that gun control was not raised in response to last week’s shootings.  They’ve won back the majority in Congress, in part, by running pro-gun blue dogs.  And last year, SCOTUS established that the Second Amendment protects an individual right—a cold stare decisis that not even the liberals can ignore.

But that doesn’t mean they’ve given up.  They’ll continue to try to slip the crowbar in here and there, hoping to peel off some support, making “practical” suggestions.  The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and we must be prepared, as always, to counter their garbage.

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