The U.S. government is doing most of the "gun running" from the U.S.
Posted on 04/18/2009 8:16:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Meeting face-to-face with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, President Obama on Thursday said the U.S. is to blame for much of Mexico's drug violence, and he set up a major congressional gun-control battle by calling on the Senate to ratify a treaty designed to track and cut the flow of guns to other countries.
Mr. Obama said he wants to renew a ban on some semiautomatic weapons but that it is not likely to pass Congress. Instead, he called for the Senate to ratify a decade-old hemispherewide treaty that would require nations to mark all weapons produced in the country and track them to make sure no weapons were exported to countries where they were banned.
"I will not pretend that this is Mexico's responsibility alone. The demand for these drugs in the United States is what's helping keep these cartels in business," Mr. Obama said at a joint news conference with Mr. Calderon. "This war is being waged with guns purchased not here, but in the United States. More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States, many from gun shops that line our shared border."
But the treaty is likely to run into opposition from gun rights backers, and the Senate's top Democrat was noncommittal Thursday about the measure.
Mr. Calderon urged the U.S. to consider a gun registry and a prohibition on bulk sales of firearms.
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OBAMA please just shut the f up and go away
King Ray-Ray...not only is he a COMMIE, but he’s an INTERNATIONAL COMMIE.
with open borders, it is their fault. people need to start taking responsibility for their own actions.
Did BO used to take drugs?
It would make much more sense to blame the U.S. for consuming the drugs and providing the market. Therefore, one answer would be to close the border.
You are correct. The US should move boldly to outlaw drugs.
Obama blames America for the ills of the world and coddles dictators. The man needs a psychiatrist.
Why of course,
The problem isn’t the drug cartels, a corrupt Mexican police, a Mexican government that looked the other way for years and ignored the problems......
I thought you couldn't buy a gun without a background check.
LIAR. If a lie is repeated enough times.....
Nachum - is this one on your list?
Keep repeating a lie often enough...
Hey, since you are with Stupid.
What is his real name?
Barry Dunham?
Barry Toots?
Barry Serotoro?
Barry Davis?
Barrack H. Obama II?
or the Marx Brothers
bump
May the Lord help us all.
More hatred for the U.S. from this dictator...
This is what happens when the idiot class elect another idiot for President.
Didn’t this idiot complain of our poor standing in the world? So he goes out and instead of supporting us he does the opposite by slamming us every chance he gets! What a moron.
Do they have any hard data on where Mexicans get their guns, or are they making this whole thing up.
“You are correct. The US should move boldly to outlaw drugs.”
On the contrary, if we legalized drugs, giant corporations (Big Opium) would rise to steal the market from Mexican thugs. People buy from them now because bad people are the only ones willing to take the risk.
The Cockroach and the Lightswitch: A Spotlight on the Gunshow-Loophole-Mexican-Narco-Nexus Lie
Here is another article with similar information.
The Myth of 90 Percent: Only a Small Fraction of Guns in Mexico Come From U.S
see post #25
Absolut Bullsh*t.
The trigger fingers belong to Mexicans...the kinds of guns we're talking about here don't fire themselves.
CLOSE THE BORDER- Problem Solved!
Maybe they should just restrict gun sales in Mexico...oh, they do already. Guess we know how well that will work here...
Yeah, Lord Emperor Barrack had no problem with drugs when he was in college. And still had no problem with them on the 60 Minutes interview either.
The data shows roughly 15% traceable from U.S. But vast majority are totally untraceable as to origin.
AK’s are made all over the world.
This “statistic” is a total fraud like the Lying Kenyan Commie “Statist” that sleeps in the White House.
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“More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States,...”
Obama lied, people will die.
In 2007-2008, 29,000 guns were recovered from crime scenes in Mexico. Exactly 5114 were traced to origins in the US. That is 17.6%.
Obama is LYING, again.
Everything 0bama, Clinton, Holder and others have said about this are easily provable flat out lies.
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