Christian Science Monitor Says U.S. Guns Feed Drug War, Fails to Point out the War Part

In addition to the anti-gun leaning story from the Associate Press, the Christian Science Monitor claims that the report from the Government Accountability Office has the headline claiming: “US guns feed Mexican drug violence, says report.” Wild claims from the CSM indeed, but they were just warming up.

The story further adds this passage:

“About 87 percent of firearms seized by Mexican authorities for the past five years have been traced back to the US, the report says, although it notes that ‘it is impossible to know’ how many firearms are illegally smuggled into Mexico in a given year.”

 As we’ve repeatedly stressed, that 87 percent (or 90 percent as it is often rounded up to), isn’t the whole picture. Once again that figure is the percent only of guns already believed to be of American origin, which actually accounts for around 17 percent of all firearms seized.

But as with most other anti-firearms stories this one is notable for putting the blame on the guns, not the criminals using the guns, and not the illicit drug trade. Why does the mainstream media fail to report that this is a drug war? And does anyone in the MSM really believe the war will stop if American guns simply stop flowing south?