@gungasnake,
gungasnake wrote:Two questions... who's worrying about the other 83% of the weapons used by Mexican criminals (which are likely being bought as I described),
The other 83% have not been ruled out as not coming from the US at all, most of them just weren't submitted to the ATF for tracing. And as to who's worrying about it, that would be Mexican authorities, I guess. I don't see how this matters. The point is that yes the US gun market
is fueling conflict elsewhere, which you had disputed.
Quote:and what's the ATF doing working for the government of Mexico??
The same thing their cops are doing working to keep drugs out of our country. This kind of cooperation is fairly standard, and they are paying the largest price for our drug war. They could end their problem easily through legalization, but we use trade leverage to make sure that isn't going to happen with our neighbors so it behooves us to cooperate when we insist they comply with our drug policy.