Obama says 90% of recovered crime guns in Mexico come from the States. We call bull$#!%.
by Dennis E. Florian
GunOwnersResource
[Note: Yes, this is an "American thing" but, just as the Yanks got all worried that the LGR would encourage gun grabbers south of the border to float similar ballons down there (it did), so should we Canadians keep an eye on underhanded tactics in the States that may one day work their way up here. It happens a lot more than you might think. -D]
There's no arguing that a buttload of handguns, rifles and other guns are purchased in the U.S. and end up in the hands of Mexican criminals each year. It's not all that hard to buy them legally in Texas or other border states and to smuggle them south — just like it's not all that hard to smuggle thousands of tons of dope north across the same border every year.
But is it true, as Obama keeps chirping, that "more than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States?" Not *** ****d likely; even his own government's statistics don’t actually support that line of bull.
But Armageddon never happened. Newly released data for Chicago shows that, as in Washington, murder and gun crime rates didn't rise after the bans were eliminated -- they plummeted. They have fallen much more than the national crime rate.
Gun incident shows armed citizenry deterrent to crime
by John Bachman
Nashua Telegraph
An event in Manchester last month caused the usual suspects to man their battle stations, but it also raised some important points for rational people to consider.
National Rifle Association's Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre addressed the United Nations this afternoon. He told the U.N. to not interfere with the Second Amendment freedoms of Americans and pledged to continue the fight to preserve civilian ownership of firearms in the U.S. He said the NRA will oppose any U.N. provision that seeks to prohibit or regulate U.S. civilian firearm ownership. LaPierre said in his remarks, "The cornerstone of our freedom is the Second Amendment. Neither the United Nations, nor any other foreign influence, has the authority to meddle with the freedoms guaranteed by our Bill of Rights, endowed by our Creator, and due to all humankind."
United Nations Arms Trade Treaty
Preparatory Committee - 3d Session
New York, July 11-15, 2011
A recent article by Chad D. Baus ("Journalists for hire, ethics be damned: Anti-gun Joyce Foundation grant funds media "studies" pushing gun control") featured on the Buckeye Firearms Association website examined the biased, unethical, and unprofessional practice of "advocacy journalism" as it relates to the gun debate. Bias in the media -- especially when it concerns the Second Amendment and "gun control" -- is about as new as the concept of fire or the wheel, but the article describes one of the most blatant cases we've seen to date.
by Dennis E. Florian
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