Anti-Gun Voices Still Trying To Blame U.S. For Mexican Violence

By Tom Knighton

The United States is quite a nation. For someone like me, it represents the freest society on the planet, the place that people desperately long to go to escape tyranny. Hell, they come here to escape all sorts of bad things. I have a dear friend who came here from Portugal just to escape the socialist hellhole that country was shaping up as.

Yet for some others, the U.S. is exceptional for quite another reason. For them, this country is to blame for all the ills that befall pretty much anyone else, especially Mexico.

US firearms have flowed into the hands of corrupt security forces and criminal organizations in Mexico for years, yet the United States is still struggling to stem the tide of deadly weaponry moving across its southern border.

Between 2013 and 2018, 70 percent of the 96,036 firearms recovered by Mexican authorities and turned over to the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) were traced back to the United States, according to official government data. In 2018 alone, half of the 16,343 firearms recovered in Mexico were manufactured in the United States.

This comes as Mexico, a country with the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.fundacionfemeba.org.ar/blog/farmacologia-7/post/muertes-por-armas-de-fuego-en-el-mundo-1990-2016-45985" …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms