CBS News
The problem with that statistic is that it is only partially true.
There is a word missing – and that word is “traced.”
The U.S. is responsible for over 90 percent of the traced firearms found in Mexico, but the vast majority of guns recovered in Mexico are not sent back to the U.S. to be [...]
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On that 90% of guns used in violence in Mexico coming from the US
Fudging statistics on Mexico
I’m an accountant, and by nature I analyze numbers. So when Bob reported the oft-quoted statistic that 90% of the guns recovered in Mexico originated in the U.S., that statistic bothered me. Don’t get me wrong: Bob accurately quoted his sources. But his sources were fudging their numbers.
One commenter responded by quoting Fox News’s figure: only 17% [...]
Drug corruption is on both sides of the border
President Calderon of Mexico.
“There is trafficking in Mexico because there is corruption in Mexico”
“But by the same argument if there is trafficking in the United States it is because there is some corruption in the United States… It is impossible to pass tonnes of cocaine to the United States without the complicity of some American [...]
The bazaar of violence, open for business in Mexico
Shootouts with police by heavily armed gangs. High level governmental and police involvement with criminal gangs. Police shot dead. Corpses booby trapped with IEDs. Mexico is getting wobbly.
What happens when the violence spills over across the US border? And it will.
Why is the US such a huge consumer of drugs? Without a US market for [...]
