Monday, April 06, 2009

US Attorney Still Blaming Private Guns for Mexican Crime

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At 37 minutes in, hear U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello claim, when challenged by a caller about the "90%" lie, that if guns are being imported into Mexico from Guatemala they are probably being trans-shipped from the United States.

You got that, right? So apparently, after "straw purchasing" at gun shops and "damned American gun shows," rather than run them across the border, they evidently ship them to Guatemala and bring them into Mexico that way? No wonder "Operation Southbound Steel" is such a bust!

And then, right after admitting he doesn't "know," Pal Joey opines he "would not be surprised" if 20 million of the 250 million guns going to Mexico from the US come from residential burglaries.

My favorite is his response to the question asking if he keeps statistics on how many crimes are prevented or stopped because of a private gun:
No.
It would hardly advance his agenda if they did, would it?

[Via Dave Licht]

UPDATE: Comrade Joe's a "republican".

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Another statist pig looking to gain reward and stature via the national socialist coattails...

Armatus said...

They're getting desperate, folks. Despite Obama being in office, perhaps because of it, they are having serious problems with getting the guns out of the hands of the American people.

And, again, these phony scumbag "republicans" are the real threat.

Look for more rampage killings and mass shootings to occur before they trot out the PERMANENT "Assault Weapons" ban.

Mack said...

Gun Laundering?

How novel.

avgJoe said...

I can't help wondering how a person can take an oath to uphold the US Constitution and lie about facts to set up a scam to destroy it. Or parts of it that, that person has a personal problem with. Being this is the AG who do we get to go to, to correct this.