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? asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 8 years ago

Explain Obama saying this, please?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/05/03/...

"Most of the guns used to commit violence here in Mexico come from the United States,"

He sent them there!

"But at the same time, as I’ve said in the United States, I will continue to do everything in my power to pass common-sense reforms that keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people. That can save lives here in Mexico and back home in the United States. It’s the right thing to do,"

Then why did he send them there???

Update:

pepsiman - You're an idiot... There's a video in the link of HIM SAYING EXACTLY THAT. D.A.

Update 2:

Bush's program tracked and recovered all of its weapons. Fast and Furious shipped thousands of weapons to Mexico, many of which have yet to be recovered and continue to show up in horrific crime scenes in Mexico.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/presi...

http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2012/...

There was a big difference between Fast and Furious and Wide Receiver.

Fast and Furious resulted in the death of a border patrol agent and an ICE agent.

Fast and Furious shipped thousands of untraceable guns - Wide Receiver tracked their guns - to Mexico.

Wide Receiver was shut down - in 2007 - = shortly after it was started and shown that it would fail.

Wide Receiver was jointly conducted with Mexico. Fast and Furious just let thousands of guns loose without telling anybody.

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    It only needs explaining if someone has only heard right wing talking points about Fast and Furious and is not aware of the bigger problem. For years drug traffickers have gone into places like Arizona, legally bought guns, and then carried them across the border into Mexico. That's a problem that has been well documented. It is also something the right wing sound machine doesn't being up with ranting about Fast and Furious.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    Obamas puppet carry close has no longer approved his answer yet. It must be studied and a minimum of quite a few polls should be run before Soros approves a press release except uh ,I ooh, it ah, ...and so on.

  • 8 years ago

    Read your source. You couldn't have found a more partisan article. Reminder: guns were shipped to Mexico under bush.

  • 8 years ago

    He's planning on getting 20 million more voters here pretty soon... So, he's out campaigning as usual. I wonder if he knows he cant be President again ? We know he hasn't read the constitution, so maybe he really doesn't know.

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    Yet he will not blame them for sending heroin and cocaine by the truck load to kill our youth. Don't blame the kids for what they make attractive .

  • 8 years ago

    Personally, I think this was his plan all along. Give them weapons, then when they start killing people say "See how bad guns are! We have to get rid of them!"

  • 8 years ago

    He sent them there in the hopes it would undermine the second amendment.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    There he goes again, talking shi* about America.

  • Gail
    Lv 4
    8 years ago

    "HE" did NOT send them there.

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