HOW MANY GUNS ARE FROM THE US?

In an article entitled The Myth of 90 Percent: Only a Small Fraction of Guns in Mexico Come From U.S. by William La Jeunesse and Maxim Lott for FOXNews-dot-com yesterday, the numbers game about how we bad Americans are not only responsible for 90 percent of the guns used in violent crimes in Mexico, but we're also responsible for the drug usage that requires the innocent drug dealers of Mexico (which encompasses the police and military as well as the cartels) to carry and use the guns, doesn't exactly hold water.

This anti-American bullshit comes from our own SecState and others in the Obama Administration, including the Prez himself.

A closer look reveals some of the bullshit behind those numbers.

"In 2007-2008, according to ATF Special Agent William Newell, Mexico submitted 11,000 guns to the ATF for tracing. Close to 6,000 were successfully traced -- and of those, 90 percent -- 5,114 to be exact, according to testimony in Congress by William Hoover -- were found to have come from the U.S.

"But in those same two years, according to the Mexican government, 29,000 guns were recovered at crime scenes.

"In other words, 68 percent of the guns that were recovered were never submitted for tracing. And when you weed out the roughly 6,000 guns that could not be traced from the remaining 32 percent, it means 83 percent of the guns found at crime scenes in Mexico could not be traced to the U.S."

The complete story can be found HERE.

Essentially what that 90 percent number means is that 90 percent of the weapons purchased in the US were identified as being from US sources. Duh.

That's a whole shitload different than saying 90 percent of the weapons used are US guns.

Maybe Mexico oughta' stop playing victim and clean up its own crap ... or would you rather we really start policing the border (okay, so given the present administration's policy towards any bad guys, anywhere, that's a pipe dream)?

PS: Where the remainder of the confiscated 29,000 guns come from reads like the plot for a Tom Clancy thriller.