Firearms go to Mexico with the drug trade. Cocaine/meth smugglers bring the drugs up and firearms back down. Mexican drug dealers have even bragged in the past that they could pay Mexican customs $20 to get the stuff in and out.
In sum President Obama is not doing his job. He only needs to shut down the drug trade from Mexico by getting rougher. ...ain’t going to happen, because lefties want drugs decriminalized and addicts coddled.
And no, there hasn’t been any “war on drugs”—ever. If there were a war on drugs, the growers, processors, dealers and addicts would be dead.
I guess the authors didn’t do their research and figure out that the only weapons sent back for tracing were weapons they thought they “actually” could trace.....
(I’m looking for the link!) sheeesh
“But the guns going to Mexico are legal American firearms, not war materiel. The news media have knowingly or incompetently lied to Americans in service of a political cause. For this they should be deeply ashamed.”
Since the news media has been told, they are not incompetently doing anything, they are intentionally lying to the American people. As such, they should be fired, and their FCC licenses should be revoked.
Ping
Once again the Big Lie Technique rides - sounds better and fits the preconceptions of the MSM!
Oh, but Josh Sugarmann does. He is a consummate liar and propagandist who is with the Violence Policy Center, an organization that knowingly and deliberately constructs anti-gun campaigns out of pure falsehood. The VPC is the very apotheosis of bad faith on the issue, inventors or proliferators of such touchstone neologisms as "gun show loophole," "assault weapon," "cop-killer bullet," and the less successful "pocket rocket," a term intended to demonize concealable 9mm pistols. As the article details, they deliberately spread the lie that Glocks and other non-metallic-frame firearms could not be picked up by airline X-rays. They are now attempting to construct a fiction of large-scale purchases of military ordnance in U.S. gun stores that are reponsible for the violence in otherwise pacific Mexico. They are particularly adept at constructing the sort of sensationalism that the media find irresistible. They know they're lying and to be honest, they have been very successful at it.
My local newspaper repeated the “95%” lie again the other day. Amazingly, a few days later, they printed a response letter calling them on this lie.
Oh gee the leftist aka progressive gun haters will ram it through.
What makes the people that defend the right to bear arms think the gun haters will ever stop.
The only goal of this group is to ban the right of Americans to bear arms.
Canadian-born Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer admitted as much before the first "assault weapon" ban went into effect in 1994: "The 'assault weapons ban' will have no effect either on the crime rate or on personal security. . . . Its only real justification is not to reduce crime but to desensitize the public to the regulation of (all) weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation."
It's called divide and conqueror folks, I've been to gun show where attendees will refer to AR's as “machine guns” and such, wise up people! What do you think they will go after once they've been able to register and confiscate So-called “Assault Weapons”
Thanks, Idiot Engel is my Congressidiot.
Today in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, 65 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives, led by Congressman Mike Ross (D-AR), expressed their opposition to the reinstatement of the failed 1994 ban on semi-automatic firearms and ammunition magazines. These congressmen cited numerous studies that proved the 1994 ban was ineffective, and they strongly urged Attorney General Holder to stop his effort and instead focus on the enforcement of existing gun laws.
It's nothing more than a fundraising horse & pony show for the gun grabbers. The rats finally woke up in 2006 that gun grabbing was killing them. They literally can't afford to say so.