(The honest double talk of the President would be as follows: "90% of the 100% of the 10% of Mexico's guns are from America". However, it's not as scandalous to say that 9% of the weapons are from America and the remaining 89% are not.)In the most recent volley of attacks on the Constitution of the United States of America, President Obama makes the argument that our 2nd Amendment is trumped by distorted facts associated with the problems of a country that is NOT the United States of America.
The Assertion: American guns make up 90% of the weapons used in Mexico.
The Underlying Argument: In order to fix the problem in Mexico, we must lock down firearm rights in the United States.
The Reality: Mexico's problems are significantly larger than American firearms. If one were to pick a substantial contributor to Mexican problems related to America, it would have to be the conscious decision to not enforce the border.
The lack of enforcement has contributed to more problems for America and Mexico than a singular issue such as weapon traffic. The refusal to enforce border security has contributed to human and drug trafficking. Weapon trafficking is a byproduct of those two "industries".
Using the border caused problems as a marketing device to pursue anti-gun legislation is a thinly veiled attempt to generate support for the progressive anti-American (anti constitution) policies of our current administration (or at least the people that paid for him and his teleprompter).
If our President Obama were honestly interested in Mexico, he would acknowledge the obvious fact that these issues are associated to years of consciously not enforcing and not allowing enforcement of the US/Mexico border. He would acknowledge that that any American guns in Mexico are trafficked as a byproduct of that past/present/forseable future policy to NOT enforce the border.
Back to the root of the lie: 90% of the guns confiscated by Mexico that are "assumed" to be American are "shipped" back to America and then checked. 90% of the ones selected to be checked are deemed to be from America. That is a significant difference. Consider the following statements:
"90% of the guns in Mexico are from America"
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"90% of the guns Mexico thinks are American actually come from America"
The more honest statement would be that approximately 10% of the guns in Mexico are sent to the United States, checked, and 90% of those turn out to be from America. The additional fact would be that over 80% of the weapons in Mexico are from Russia, China, Korea and do not arrive via our borders.
Even when we factor in the results of not enforcing the border, only 10% are coming into their country in that manner. The bulk of weapons are arriving via ship through Mexican government controlled ports. While enforcing the border wouldn't stop most of the guns coming in, it would assist in limiting human and drug trafficking.
The thing that should get Americans fired up: The President is using the problems of another country to attempt to limit freedoms within the United States of America. The President is lying about the facts in an attempt to cause Americans to think we're supplying 90% of Mexico's weapons when in fact we are not. The President is abusing Mexico's situation in an attempt to promote an unpopular and unconstitutional agenda. When Obama says "The Stars Have Aligned", we should be scared. We should be very scared.
Those unfamiliar with "Wounded Knee" (1890) should take a moment to imagine the burial pictures as follows:
look at the pictures and imagine Law Abiding Americans in the mass graves. Imagine Obama and congress standing on the edge holding guns over the dead bodies piled on top of each other. The anti-American politics that are so popular today will likely contribute to a lesser violent situation of the same result.
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