Hillary - Lies and Damn Lies

On her recent trip to Mexico, SOS Hillary Clinton said in her customary liberal elitist speak, that the US was to blame for a lot of the drug war violence in Mexico and across the boarder. This is blaming the victim for the crime, a favored tactic of liberals. Then she went on to say; "And since we know that the vast majority, 90% of that [weaponry] comes from our country, we're going to try to stop it from getting there in the first place."
CBS newsman Bob Schieffer referred to the 90% figure while interviewing President Obama.
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein said at a Senate hearing: "It is unacceptable to have 90 percent of the guns that are picked up in Mexico and used to shoot judges, police officers and mayors ... come from the United States."
William Hoover, assistant director for field operations at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, testified in the House of Representatives that "there is more than enough evidence to indicate that over 90 percent of the firearms that have either been recovered in, or interdicted in transport to Mexico, originated from various sources within the United States."
The problem with this 90% statistic is that it is simply not true. The real number is more like 17% according to statistics from the ATF when analyzed by someone without a political agenda. The difference comes from the number of guns traced to the U.S. Guns seized in Mexico that can be traced to the US are indeed found to have 90% origin in the the US. What you weren't told is that thousands of other guns seized in Mexico from drug gangs did not have a US origin and came from places like Russia, China, Guatemala, South America and - yes, get ready for this - the Mexican army.
Are you ready to take back control of your government from these nut cases?