NPR and Mexican Guns From USA

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Update on previous post by The Right Jack

On Friday April 17, 2009, NPR presented a story that was counter to the Fox News article about the source of guns in the Mexican drug wars. See earlier April post here.

First, it has been widely distributed by the Big Time Dying Media and Democrats in the administration that 90 per cent of the drug guns in Mexico have come from the United States. This has been stated repeatedly and yet again by our current Homeland Security czar the week of April 13th.

Fox shed light on that story weeks ago by noting that the 90 per cent figure is accurate. However, here is the Fox proviso. The Mexican government seizes guns. Then, those they believe to have originated in the USA are sent back to the USA for inspection and verification. Of those guns sent back to the USA, 90 per cent are confirmed to have come from the USA. They wrote that this represents about 13 per cent of the guns seized by the government in Mexico.

Again, the BIG however is, guns from the USA represent only a fraction of the guns that come into Mexico - perhaps 13 per cent. Thousands more come into Mexico from gun runners through South America, Europe and the Middle East. Guns of all types are readily available on the so-called free market, THEY say.

According to the expert in the NPR version of the truth, the Fox 90 per cent number is pretty accurate. However, he stated that this 90 per cent figure represents ALL guns that come into Mexico. Yet, this NPR expert noted that many guns do come into Mexico from other non-US sources. He then estimated that as many as two-thirds of the guns coming into Mexico are NOT from the USA. Still, he confirmed again that the 90 per cent figure was pretty close to accurate.

So, you do the math.

IF nearly one-third of the seized guns come into Mexico from the USA, and two-thirds of the seized guns come into Mexico from other nations, then what. Well, less than 30 per cent of the drug guns that are seized come from the USA. That leaves over 70 per cent of the drug guns coming in from other nations.

The interesting finale to his story involves his shoddy math. He stated that the real number of US drug guns in Mexico is closer to 90 percent than 13 per cent. This means that 30 per cent is closer to 90 per cent than is 13 per cent. And this passes for reporting on NPR.

THEY will say anything and their friends in the media will not challenge the accuracy of their proclamations. We need fact checkers for every statistic they utter.
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