XPost: talk.politics.guns, talk.politics.guns, talk.politics.guns   
   From: me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net   
      
   "nobammer*>->>->>@fgi.net>" <"nobammer*> wrote in message   
   news:0_6dnSK3lc1sfB7RnZ2dnUVZ_ukAAAAA@earthlink.com...   
   > The Lone Weasel wrote:   
   >   
   >> Obama could help stop Mexico's bloodshed   
   >>  BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER   
   >>   
   >> MEXICO CITY -- Here's an interesting detail about the much-publicized   
   >> recent arrest of Mexico's top drug baron Edgar Valdez Villarreal, better   
   >> known as ``La Barbie'' -- he was caught with a U.S.-made M-16   
   >> semiautomatic rifle and other sophisticated arms that Mexican officials   
   >> suspect were smuggled from the United States.   
   >>   
   >> In Mexico, U.S. arms smuggling is a big issue. President Felipe Calderón   
   >> said during a visit to Washington in May that of all the guns and assault   
   >> rifles seized in Mexico over the past three years, ``more than 80 percent   
   >> of those we have been able to trace came from the United States.''   
   >   
   > Hardly any are traceable you idiot. If you find 10 traceable guns, 80%   
   > would only be 8 guns, again you idiot.   
      
   Further, what do you want to bet that a lot  of those are guns that were   
   legally sold to the Mexican police/military/government?   
      
      
   That's the part of the equation of those traceable guns tracked back to the   
   US I would like to know about. How many of them were legal arms sales to the   
   Mexican government?   
      
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