Monday, June 22, 2009

Let the Games begin..

I was trying to sit down and figure out what to write this time around and I remembered something that someone once told me. 90 percent of the statistics are right 50 percent of the time. (What they REALLY said was that ther are three kinds of people. Those that can count and those that can't). I'm putting our current administration in the second category. For those of you who respect the office and not the man, I will refer to the Chosen One from here on out as POTUS. In order to further an anti-gun agenda, they (POTUS and his henchmen) now whip up these "claims" that the Mexican drug cartels are gettng their guns from good, honest American citizens. Yup, right here in the Good 'Ol US of A. 90 percent of the guns they captured come from here. OK, which one of you went down to 'Bazookas R Us' and popped down some cool green for an M47 Dragon? Now let's look at these cooked numbers. POTUS and his team have said that "90% of the recovered firearms in Mexico come from the US". Well, he's 50% right. Reality is that 90% of the TRACED firearms come from the US. In 2007-2008 Mexico gave us 11,000 firearms to trace and only 6,000 were actually traced to the US. However, Mexico RECOVERED 29,000 guns. So, only about 17% were actually traced to the US. And since most of those are automatic weapons (remember, the average US citizen CANNOT BUY automatic weapons), most have come from the Mexican military or police, black market, Asia, Russia and other Central American sources. (Source: ATF Special Agent William Newell)

So if POTUS bans are guns, what happens in Mexico? Not a damn thing. In fact it will probably get worse and spill more over our border. I'm more worried about what will happen here.

Benjamin Franklin: Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Nov 11 1755, from the Pennsylvania Assembly's reply to the Governor of Pennsylvania.)

Thomas Jefferson: “Laws that forbid the carrying of arms… disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants…”