Kathianne
04-18-2009, 03:23 PM
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Hating America:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/04/barack-obama-gun.html
Barack Obama way wrong on U.S. guns in Mexico--FactCheck.org
On his recently concluded first visit to Mexico as president, a week after telling Europeans that his country had been at times arrogant, President Barack Obama blamed his own country for providing 90% of Mexico's recovered crime guns.
According to a report by the independent FactCheck.org this afternoon, that's incorrect. By a, uh, long shot.
The president's assertion, also cited by Mexican President Felipe Calderon during their joint news conference in Mexico City, and the reported inaccuracy seems likely to fuel the eternal American gun-control debate, especially as it relates to the U.S. role in Mexico's deadly drug world.
Here's the FactCheck full summary:
There's no dispute that thousands of handguns, military-style rifles and other firearms are purchased in the U.S. and end up in the hands of Mexican criminals each year. It's relatively easy to buy such guns legally in Texas and other border states and to smuggle them across.
But is it true as President Obama said, that "more than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States?" No, it's not....
Hating America:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/04/barack-obama-gun.html
Barack Obama way wrong on U.S. guns in Mexico--FactCheck.org
On his recently concluded first visit to Mexico as president, a week after telling Europeans that his country had been at times arrogant, President Barack Obama blamed his own country for providing 90% of Mexico's recovered crime guns.
According to a report by the independent FactCheck.org this afternoon, that's incorrect. By a, uh, long shot.
The president's assertion, also cited by Mexican President Felipe Calderon during their joint news conference in Mexico City, and the reported inaccuracy seems likely to fuel the eternal American gun-control debate, especially as it relates to the U.S. role in Mexico's deadly drug world.
Here's the FactCheck full summary:
There's no dispute that thousands of handguns, military-style rifles and other firearms are purchased in the U.S. and end up in the hands of Mexican criminals each year. It's relatively easy to buy such guns legally in Texas and other border states and to smuggle them across.
But is it true as President Obama said, that "more than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States?" No, it's not....