Abatis
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In reality, the opposite occurs. American gun makers are arming the cartels. So you really are just throwing BS out there.
American guns are flooding into Mexico and wreaking havoc | Robert Reich
Mexico has tried almost everything to stop US-made guns from fueling cartel violence. So now it’s doing what any litigious American would do: suingwww.theguardian.com
Don't for one minute think US sourced guns only flow to cartels from illicit sources . . . Tens of thousands flow from diversion of guns (and other real military hardware) the government of the USA sells to the Government of Mexico in US State Department approved direct sales.
I'm having deja vu all over again! This was a thing in the news back in Obama's time, right after he got in he was jawboning the same thing as Reich is now . . . That was when Obama's spouted the lie that “[m]ore than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States” . . .
For 2009 the State Department suddenly jacked Mexico's direct sales of AR-15's ten-fold from previous years when the State Department's own audits showed a 26% diversion rate of government sales to the cartels. People noticed that jump and in response the State Department shut down all public reporting in 2010, never to be mentioned again . . .
Legal U.S. gun sales to Mexico arming cartels
Direct commercial sales of U.S. firearms - skirting Pentagon approval - may be worse than "Fast and Furious" for diverting weapons to criminals
www.cbsnews.com
A distrusting person might think that the idea was to flood Mexico with US sourced guns from direct sales and Fast and Furious (wink, wink) then be shocked and horrified when cartel violence explodes, which could then be used to propagandize support in the US to enact new gun laws . . . Nah, no way, only a crazy person would ever think that!
This "guns to Mexico" topic is probably a huge Pandora's Box of hijack here. It's a fun topic and definitely worthwhile to discuss, given Biden is pushing now, with Reich floating the test balloon, the same policies Obama was then.
Like I said, deja vu!
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