Reuters Calls U.S. Guns Laws “Lax”

 

Where exactly did the Government Accountability Office use the word “lax” when discussing gun laws in the United States? That’s the question we have for Reuters today, as well as The Washington Post, which ran a story titled:

“Mexican gun-runners helped by lax U.S. laws: report”

Of course the article goes on to report the usual 90 percent figure as mentioned in the article here:

“Drug-related violence killed more than 6,300 in Mexico last year, and authorities say that 90 percent of the guns seized from drug cartels in the past three years that could be traced came from the United States.”

One more time for the slow kids, that 90 percent number is not of all the firearms seized in Mexico. It is actually 90 percent of those that are believed to be of American origin.

The bigger issue is the fact that anyone in the mainstream media would actually believe that Mexican cartels are almost exclusively using American firearms. No one would instantly believe that 90 percent of all cars in Mexico are of American origin, or that 90 percent of all tourists are even from America.

So why is it so easy for the mainstream media to take this 90 percent figure, which is further twisted and turned, and make it about American made guns? The answer is simple of course, the MSM has a bias against guns.

But the bigger question is why no one in the mainstream origin even questions why Russian, Chinese and other cheap guns aren’t being used by Mexican drug cartels? There are countless photos show criminals in Mexico using AK-47s, one of the most favored guns by insurgents around the word, but no one questions the origin of these?

Maybe the MSM believes the AK-47 to be something invented by rich Republicans in the United States.