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April 13, 2009
If I Say It and I'm On TV
...[Mexican Ambassador] Sarukhan has claimed that Mexico seizes 2,000 guns a day from the United States, or 730,000 a year.
But the official statistic from the Mexico attorney general's office says Mexico seized 29,000 weapons in all of 2007 and 2008.
Facts?!? We don't need no steakin' facts!!
And that pinche abogado generale? Hasta la vista...
Posted by tree hugging sister at April 13, 2009 09:08 AM
Comments
Hmmmmmm..... 730000/29000 = 25.1724137931
That's the official MINIMUM bulls**t factor to be applied to all statistics referring to all Mexican claims about border problems.
Posted by: JeffS at April 13, 2009 11:35 AM
Conceivably they have a cycle where they seize and give back the same guns over and over again. Then they could seize 2000 guns a day while only seizing 29,000 distinct weapons over the course of 2 years.
Posted by: Nobrainer at April 13, 2009 03:56 PM
I'm writing a 25 page paper on that topic for my law school writing requirement.
Posted by: Skyler at April 13, 2009 06:46 PM