Comments by "Ronin Dave" (@RoninDave) on "70% of Illegal Mexican Weapons Traced to US" video.

  1. The problem is the gun nuts will just tout Fast&Furious believing that F&F represents 500% of the 70% of those weapons rather than the fact that the vast majority of US guns which find their way south of the border come thru legal purchases at gun shows and gun shops, thru straw purchases, and private sales from American gun owners. This is why there is so much resistance to tracking gun purchases. Certain "legal" American gun owners don't want it known where their guns are going after they've bought them nor do some want it known where their conveniently "stolen" guns keep ending up. Also it's a matter of shifting the blame. Rather than acknowledge the fact that the many of the guns in the hands of the cartels are a result of America's over-abundance of guns and our poor regulation of them, they just blame their usual scapegoat - the big bad evil gubermint.
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  2. ***** a few but hardly consequential. F&F didn't start the illegal gun trade with the cartels nor did it end with F&F
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  3. Blissifi3d wanting guns is one thing - selling them to criminals and cartels is another thing which represents most of the guns that cartels get
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  4. Alonso Quintero the point is they are bought legally but not by honest people who turn around and sell their guns. If sales were tracked and guns regulated they wouldn't be able to do this so easily.
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  5. Blissifi3d and remember that is a drop in the bucket compared to the guns procured thru regular channels that don't need government intervention 
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  6. Blissifi3d the thing is they don't need the government when anyone can easily get a gun in the US and take it across the border because of our lax regulation on gun and gun sales
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