The 90% Myth - Another 2nd Admendment Attack

Recently, if you've been watching the news at all, you've heard and seen stories about how 90% of the guns used by the drug cartel in Mexico comes from the United States. You've heard it from VP Biden, from news reporters, from Congress. The statistic has been used in the same way Gore dismisses any questions about Global Warming. The fact is a fact and is without questioning now. So quit asking!

But there's one problem - (a minor one of course to the Obama administration and their goal to take away guns)

It's a lie. It's not correct. It ain't the truth!

Fox News has a piece today which clears up the fog of spin-manship by Obama's boys.

Here are the facts - 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.

So what's the real number? Try 17%

Far cry from the 90% that's been touted about. But of course, the liberals never have let a little thing like the truth stand in the way of their goals. Like the Mexico ambassador to the US, Auturo Sarukhan, who said Mexico seizes 2,000 guns a day from the United States -- 730,000 a year. That's a far cry from the official statistic from the Mexican attorney general's office, which says Mexico seized 29,000 weapons in all of 2007 and 2008.

If they're lying about this, what else are they willing to lie about?