ATF Allowing Guns Into Mexico
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms -- the agency tasked with keeping U.S. guns from being smuggled to Mexico -- has come under fire for allegedly allowing firearms to cross the border into Mexico.
In the wake of the Tucson shooting and as expected the anti gun lobby rose once again to attempt to seize the moment and attempt to sway public opinion in favor of further firearms controls and outright bans. The anti gun lobby emphasis this time around, is centered on banning high capacity magazines and their desire to see another 'assault weapons ban' passed by congress.
Since the Tucson shooting and the resurrection of the national debate on gun control, some interesting revelations have come to light. First it was learned that New York Mayor Bloomberg, had used over $100,000 of New York tax payer money, to launch a cross continent 'sting.'
Mayor Bloomberg's Arizona Gun Show P.R. Stunt
New York City's murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault rates rose last year according to preliminary FBI data, with murders alone increasing by more than 12 percent. But instead of concentrating on crime in New York City, Mayor Bloomberg just spent $100,000 of the NYPD's budget sending police to Arizona to buy guns at a gun show.
Bloomberg's 'sting' was supposed to demonstrate the ease with which illicit guns can be bought at gun shows in Arizona. (Funny that he chose Arizona as his target isn't it). What was demonstrated in the final analysis, was that Bloomberg's operatives weren't there to follow the laws of Arizona or federal firearms laws at all. They were there to attempt to get Arizona residents to break the federal firearms laws, so that they could then twist and misrepresent the fruits of their labors into distorted representations for their benefit in the national conversation on firearms. (once again).
But one unintended consequence of their actions, was that they clearly demonstrated how determined criminals are not prevented from obtaining firearms by laws or requirements aimed at supposedly preventing criminality.
The scheme didn't work and the truth of their illicit efforts has been revealed for what really happened. Arizonans didn't violate the law by selling the firearms. If anything was violated by anyone, it was the truth and representations of what actually did happen, once these 'operatives' of the New York mayor reported on their own illicit activities.
Since then come the latest revelations of what is really going on along the American border and who is truly in large part responsible for illicit guns arriving in Mexico.
Enter the ATF
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms -- the agency tasked with keeping U.S. guns from being smuggled to Mexico -- has come under fire for allegedly allowing firearms to cross the border into Mexico.
You read that correctly. The ATF has been responsible for allowing firearms from America, to be channeled to Mexico. It gets better.....
a former ATF agent told FoxNews.com on condition of anonymity that ATF Headquarters allowed guns to cross the border, for the reason that ATF wanted to glean more intelligence about who would come to possess the guns and what regions of the country they would end up in.
So the same ATF? The same agency who for the past two years has been telling Americans that the majority of firearms finding their way to Mexican drug cartels have come from America? Is in actuality responsible for a large number of those reported weapons being transported there in the first place. Part of their own 'sting' it would seem.
Additionally, Dick Deguerin, attorney for a Texas gun store named "Carter Country," told Fox26 Houston that the ATF asked the store to sell the guns to even those they thought were going to smuggle them to Mexico -- so that ATF could track where the guns went.
"They were told to go through with sales of three or more assault rifles at the same time... They went through with the sales because the ATF told them to go through with the sales," Deguerin said, adding that the store reported all suspicious sales to the ATF.
Mark Twain said it best when he said: "there are lies, there are damn lies and there are statistics." What Mr. Twain failed to acknowledge is that there are politicians and government bureaucracies and both produce more lies and flotsam than a rendering plant for the processing of manure.
For months these stories have been circulated by the ATF and a complicit media. Stories of how 'all of these illegal weapons' and 'all of these automatic weapons' are coming from America. And these stories are replete with innuendos of how American gun dealers are feeding the bloodbaths in Mexico sponsored by the Mexican drug cartels. And they are doing it supposedly by skating the already weak firearms laws.
To read these lies in the media, the average person might easily be led to believe that the entire responsibility for what is happening in Mexico, rests with America and we as a nation must do something to stop the carnage. And of course that something that we must do, is to disarm America citizens and completely stop the sale and possession of all firearms in this country period.
What Americans aren't being told by the complicit media, is that the devil is in the details and that the statistics are purposely manipulated in order to prevent a skewed representation of the facts. What the American people aren't being told, is that they are purposely being lied to and that it is all part of an extensive effort to thwart and destroy their constitutional rights.
For instance, there is no mention that the majority of firearms being used and recovered from Mexican drug cartels are "fully automatic weapons." Fully automatic weapons that are being bought on the world arms market and shipped to Mexico and never ever even entered into America.
The ATF and the anti gun movement media doesn't want Americans to know that these fully automatic weapons are coming from China and Russia and the middle east and that they are in essence untraceable, as they do not have serial numbers in their countries of manufacture. Nor do they have limitations on sale or export of same.
Additionally, the ATF doesn't want the American people knowing or recognizing how their statistics are put together and why. For instance, they don't want the American people knowing that their representation of weapons recovered in Mexico, only constitutes the weapons recovered with serial numbers. And apparently, the ATF (and their sponsors in Washington) don't want the American people to know that a large portion of those weapons are purposely encouraged to be sold to those the ATF knows will export them to Mexico. Again, part of their own illicit sting operation and lies told to the American people to force a perspective of lies.
It's a relatively simple shell game of facts. If one thousand weapons are sold by three Texas gun stores during the month? And a six months later three hundred of those weapons are recovered in Mexico? Then the statement can be made that a large number of weapons being sold in America, are ending up in Mexico in the hands of drug cartels. (According to the ATF).
What isn't revealed by their shell game, is that the 300 weapons recovered and mentioned as reflecting a majority? Are actually a 'significant minority' of the overall weapons being recovered in Mexico period. On average, less than ten percent annually.
It is far more desirable to proffer the false impression that the majority of firearms are coming from American, than to admit that the simple truth is, of the minority of "traceable weapons recovered," the majority were purchased or stolen in America. Yet the number of traceable weapons recovered, comprises less than then ten percent of the overall total.
These truths and revelations shouldn't come as a surprise to Americans. Our rights and freedoms are under daily assault and the foremost right that the secular egalitarian socialists would love to see destroyed, is our right to keep and bear arms. For they know and history shows, an unarmed populace is but one step away from being enslaved.
Think about that as you watch the events presently unfolding on the world stage in the middle east. The time is coming when America will have to be defended by its people. The time is coming when we as Americans may very well have to comprise a citizens militia to protect or nation from invasion or worse.
And given the opportunity? Those in elected office in Washington would sooner surrender a compliant and powerless population than solicit their aid in the protection of our freedoms.
Pay attention and be aware of what is actually being done and who is involved and why. And never trust the main stream media and their propagated versions of truth. They no longer know the truth. They report what they are told and gladly so. They have surrendered their obligation as the protectors of our freedoms and they can no longer be trusted to protect our freedoms. That responsibility now rests with the people. (A self educated and self responsible people).
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