WASHINGTON POST: About 70 percent of the guns seized in Mexico and submitted to a U.S. gun-tracing program came from the United States, according to a report released by three U.S. senators Monday.
Of the 29,284 firearms recovered by authorities in Mexico in 2009 and 2010, 20,504 came from the United States, according to figures provided to the senators by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Evidence that U.S. weapons trafficking has been fueling a bloody drug war that has cost more than 35,000 lives in Mexico since late 2006 has angered many Mexicans… (more)
EDITORS: Guns go south in exchange for drugs coming north. End the damn Drug War by treating addiction as a health problem rather than a criminal offense and all of the huge profits disappear and the killings stop overnight! Prohibition doesn’t work. Didn’t we learn anything from the 1920s?
