He Didn’t Just Lie About Arizona: Calderon Fibbed About Assault Weapons, Too
Bob Owens wrote: “President Calderon’s assertion that Mexico has seized around 75,000 guns and assault weapons in the last three years — and that more than 80 percent of them came from the United States — is a bald-faced lie. It simply is not remotely connected to the truth.”
Bob Owens’ assertion regarding President Calderon is itself a bald-faced lie. Perhaps he should know better than to trust Reuters when he levels such an accusation.
Here is what Calderon actually said in his speech to Congress:
“We have seized 75,000 guns and assault weapons in Mexico in the past three years, and more than 80 percent of those we have been able to trace came from the United States.”
There are plenty of points to object to in the Calderon speech. But this Reuters lie echoed by Owens isn’t one of them.
