Here we go with this phony 90% gun thing AGAIN.
GAO Study on 90% Canard
Posted by: Sebastian on Jun 19th, 2009 | Filed under: Gun Rights
The Government Accountability Office is an office chartered by Congress, which makes their study on the Mexican gun canard rather interesting. Who directed GAO to study this? Nancy Pelosi? Are you home? Don’t think for a minute gun owners aren’t going to punish your party over things like this. There’s a lot of mistrust of Democratic politicians on guns, even though Pennsylvania has a rather pro-gun contingent of Democrats. I can think of no more valuable organizing tool than telling gun owners they are going to lose their rights because the Mexican Government doesn’t have its shit together, and the US government can’t control its border. You couldn’t really ask for a better issue. So keep pushing it Nancy! You only make my job easier come November of 2010!
The LA Times has already jumped on it:
In the meantime, illegally obtained U.S. weapons — including an increasing number of automatic rifles — are being used to kill thousands of Mexican police, soldiers, elected officials and civilians, the report said.
If they are finding increasing numbers of automatic weapons being traced back to the US, it’s through legal sales by the US Government to the Mexican Government. Those aren’t coming from civilian stock. There’s no way they could be.
But the GAO criticisms go beyond operational concerns. Some findings cited laws and policies in the U.S. and Mexico that could make it difficult to institute lasting reforms such as lax U.S. laws for collecting and reporting information on firearms purchases, and a lack of required background checks for private firearms sales.
I have to wonder if this was engineered by the anti-gun leadership in Congress to embarrass the White House into helping them corral the pro-gun Democrats into towing the leadership line. That must be why the anti-gun politicians and anti-gun groups were ready to pounce on it as soon as it came out.
Instead of securing our southern border, the libs would rather we law abiding Americans “compromise ” our 2nd Amendment rights.
How many times does this 90% garbage need to be debunked?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2009/04/02/myth-percent-guns-mexico-fraction-number-claimed/
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