Last Thursday, the President proclaimed, “More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States, many from gun shops that line our shared border.”
Those of us who are concerned that our second amendment rights are about to be trampled on have more than a sneaking suspicion that this manufactured gun smuggling “crisis” is going to be used to justify gun bans and restrictions.
You can call me a conspiracy theorist and give me a tin foil hat, but it turns out that 90 percent is really about 17 percent.
In a depends on the definition of “is” moment, Obama spokesperson Denis McDonough told FOX News on Saturday, “By recovered he means traceable, guns traced back to the United States.” I admit, I haven’t had as much schoolin’ as most of the Obama administration’s posse, but I do know the definitions of both traceable and recovered, and they are quite different.
Follow this if you can folks, Here’s how they got to the 90 percent number:
In 2007-2008, the ATF submitted 11,000 guns to the ATF for tracing.
Those 11,000 firearms were part of the 29,000 firearms Mexican officials recovered at crime scenes.
ATF states that 0f the 11,000 firearms submitted to U.S. officials for tracing, 6,000 could be traced somewhere because of the serial numbers or other distinctive markings.
Of those 6,000 firearms, 5,114 or 90 percent, were found to have been smuggled from the U.S.
Wow, and I thought I had math defeciencies!
Let’s try that again without all of the BS:
29,000 firearms were recovered at crime scenes by Mexican officials.
Of those 29.000 firearms, 5,114 were found to have been smuggled into Mexico from the US.
That’s 17.6 percent.
The worst part about this story isn’t the blatant lying and manipulation of the facts, but that Obama’s spokespeople have repeatedly stated that they stand by the 90 percent statement.
The Tax Day Tea Party brought several thousand people to Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza today. It was impossible to get a count of the attendees, as we saw a steady stream of people both arriving and leaving for the two hours that we were at the event. I’m thinking there were ten thousand there easily.
A very large group of people crammed into an area in front of the Capitol Building where politicians, concerned citizens and radio and TV hosts were speaking. It was so crowded in that area that we were never able to actually see who was speaking, so we chose to mill around the crowd and take some photos for your viewing pleasure.
We’ll be writing more about the event itself within the next few days, but I wanted to leave you with the best quotes of the day:
A woman holding a sign in one hand and a cell phone to her ear:
I’m standing in front of the capitol with fifty thousand other people and they all hate Obama.
This one is our favorite:
If I would have known that protesting would be this much fun, I would have done it in the ’60’s instead of starting to protest in my sixties.
Some general crowd shots:
Just some of the many clever and creative signs (we’ll post more later):
I’ll post some more tomorrow, but I’ll leave you with this one. I haven’t decided what is more humorous – seeing “hippies” at the Tea Party, or the camera crew grabbing them out of the crowd and making a fuss over them. I might normally say that they got lost on their way to a Phish concert, but they did have Tea Party signs :
P.S. – If you didn’t already know it, Arizona is a beautiful place:
Today’s Great Satan Inc. American Exceptionalism award goes to the US Navy Seals for rescuing the US captain that was held hostage by Somalian pirates this past week. We can’t thank our military enough for all that they do to keep us safe and free!
President Obama visited Dobson High School in Mesa, Arizona today to announce his $75 BILLION mortgage relief plan. Local media stories reported the crowd size as “more than 500”, but we estimate that the crowd was easily in the thousands. It was very difficult to find even one sign or person that was outwardly showing their support of the president or his policies, but there was no shortage of people expressing their anger and frustration with the new administration’s plans.
Exurban League has more welcoming committee photos from the visit. Michelle Malkin also has some great shots and comments at Michelle Malkin .com
