Mexican President Puts Blame on U.S. Guns

Is Mexican President Felipe Calderon listing too much to the American mainstream media? It seems to be the case, and the MSM is playing along. According to Bloomberg via Business Week, Calderon says that American should work more closely to stop the sale of illegal drugs and weapons in both countries, and the article added:

“Calderon said that 10,000 gun shops operate in the U.S. near the border with Mexico and that 80 percent of weapons seized in Mexico in a sampling made a year and a half ago were illegally imported into Mexico from the U.S.”

We’d like to see some creditable fact checking on those numbers. First, last year it was widely debunked that 90 percent of guns used in Mexico came from the United States, so Calderon lowers the number to 80 percent and the MSM believes him? The country can barely police its border, deal with criminals and has an economy that could fairly be described as bordering on third-world and yet they can do a sampling of guns seized in the past year and determine they came from the United States?

And what about this 10,000 guns shops operate in the U.S. near the border? Are there really 10,000 gun shops near the border? Or by the border does Calderon mean anywhere with an eight hour drive to the border? Clearly this an attempt by Calderon to make his problem feel like it is our problem, despite the fact that for decades Mexico did little to stem the flow of illegal drugs to our country.