ABC News continues to broadcast mis-information
Posted on March 28th, 2009 in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Along with several other new channels, misinformation is being continual used to make the claim that 90% of the weapons used by the drug Cartels in Mexico come from the U.S. . This BS needs to stop. People need to wake up.
n the House subcommittee hearing, Chairman Engel made it clear from the onset he viewed this issue from one perspective: guns. His solution to the ultra violent Mexican drug cartels is to blame American gun owners and American gun laws.
Kristen Rand, the Legislative Director of the Violence Policy Center, repeated the unsubstantiated claim that 90% of guns seized from the cartels come from the U.S., blamed America’s gun laws and called for BATFE to use the broadest possible interpretation of the “sporting purposes” test to ban a much larger class of semi-auto rifles.
Congressman Connie Mack (R-Fla.), however, challenged Rand’s claim that 90% of guns seized from the cartels are from the United States. Rand cited the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) for her claim. But the BATFE has only stated that 90% of the guns traced are from America. BATFE only traces a fraction of the guns seized; those firearms are not selected randomly, but are likely selected because they are the guns most likely to have come from the U.S. Trace data reveals nothing about the large number of guns that are not traced.
In defending her call to ban the import of all “assault rifles” into America, Rand admitted she had no idea how many of those guns were subsequently smuggled into Mexico. But a recent article in the Los Angles Times may shed some light on the real source of the cartels’ weapons. The article describes the military arms being used by cartels in their battles with the Mexican army and federal police, and how those weapons are entering Mexico not through the U.S., but through Central America.
