OPINION: GAO Issues Misleading Report on Mexico Violence and U.S. Guns

By National Shooting Sports Foundation , Always Shooting for More - June 21, 2009

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By Ted Novin The General Accounting Office (GAO) of the United States has released a study on firearms trafficking and violence in Mexico. The report, which NSSF is still reviewing, appears to be rife with error. Consider the following claim: “According to U.S. and Mexican government officials, these firearms have been increasingly more powerful and lethal in recent years. For example, many of these firearms are high-caliber and high-powered, such as AK and AR-15 type ... Read the Full Article
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Why doesn't the NYTs print this?
  • LagerHead
    So true

    It's laughable that outlets like the NYT continue to call their papers journalism. While every fact and statistic that points to their left wing agenda is printed in big, bold letters, anything refuting those "facts" is completely ignored. The misleading statistics on Mexico's guns is a prime example. And now that a similar report has been issued about Jamaica's guns, I am skeptical to say the least.
    It's time that Americans start holding these papers accountable for their one-sided journalism and stop buying them. Maybe then they will change. And if not, they will go the way of the dodo.

    - LagerHeadUS June 22, 2009 9:28AM

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