Mexico has been blaming the United States for its problems with violent crime for quite a few years now. They even tried suing the firearm industry over the guns, a move that was rebuffed by the Supreme Court.
But the blame game has continued, and it didn’t help that then-President Barack Obama seemed to feed into that with his antics, up to and including Operation Fast and Furious.
The dust has somewhat settled from that incident, but Mexico is still slinging blame.
And a recent report has the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms asking questions.
From a press release:
A stunning report alleging that many of the American-made guns showing up at Mexican crime scenes were originally purchased by the Mexican government should trigger an official investigation, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is demanding.
“Contrary to what America has been told for years—that Mexican crime guns are obtained illicitly from U.S. gun dealers thanks to lax gun laws here—it now appears the Mexican government may be a major source of those firearms,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “Once again, it appears U.S. gun dealers and the Second Amendment have been taking the rap for violent crimes in another country, when the truth is staggering.”
Going back to 2010 and an Obama administration scandal known as “Operation Fast and Furious,” during which the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives office in Phoenix allowed some 2,000 guns to be “walked” into Mexico, American gun owners, retailers in the Southwest, and our gun laws were ultimately blamed for drug cartel violence south of the border. But now, veteran journalist Sharyl Attkisson and former ATF agent John Dodson have blown the whistle, again. Attkisson originally broke the story about the Fast and Furious scandal, and Dodson was the man who came forward 16 years ago to expose that debacle.
But now, the story has taken an alarming new twist, and CCRKBA is demanding full disclosure.
“The American people have a right to know the full truth,” said Gottlieb. “The movement of American firearms into the hands of Mexican drug cartels is now more than just an Obama administration scandal. This is no longer a tale about a rogue ATF operation and a bunch of gunrunners, it’s a scandal involving the Mexican government.
“Until we get some answers,” he added, “all U.S. government-approved gun sales to Mexico should be halted. We’re calling on Congress and the Trump administration to launch a joint investigation. The Mexican government had the audacity to sue American gun companies for problems it created in its own country. Mexico owes the U.S., its firearms businesses and its gun-owning citizens an apology, and instead of blaming us, they need to admit their own culpability for the bloody violence that is continuing to grip their nation.”
This isn’t just a claim. Gun tracing data backs the claim up, as Attkisson notes in her piece at the Baltimore Sun.
I can’t say this is surprising, though.
Mexico has a long history of corruption. When I was in the Navy, friends who’d spent time in San Diego would routinely talk about trips to Tijuana, where local police would harass sailors over rather BS charges, only to want a bribe to let everything slide. It was a reason the Corps School barracks at the time had a bar where adults under 21 could drink–something that was not the norm on US military bases. It was to keep them from having to deal with Mexican corruption.
So the idea of guns purchased by the Mexican government ending up in cartel hands doesn’t really shock me.
The idea that it’s most of the guns, though? That’s a bit more surprising.
Especially since every report we’ve seen about the issue has put the blame squarely on the United States and our overall respect for the right to keep and bear arms. After all, wasn’t that why American gun companies were sued by the Mexican government in the first place? Because they were selling guns that the cartels trafficked into Mexico, which led to their issues?
Now we learn that no, we’re not to blame, it’s just that the Mexican government can’t hold onto its stuff.
To say they need to answer for this is putting it mildly. They’ve tried to stomp our rights into the ground, something no foreign power should ever be allowed to even consider, and they’ve made political hay domestically by blaming their cartel problems on American gun laws, and it seems they’re really the ones responsible.
It’s outrageous that they did anything like this, and it would serve them well to see any and all of their foreign aid redirected by the State Department to fund the legal fees incurred by American gun manufacturers who were unjustly sued by the corrupt narco-state that was more interested in scapegoats than fixing their internal problems.
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