ATF Cover-up May Include Homicide Rate Tripling

Defender of our Guns and our Constitution,

MEXICAN HOMICIDES TRIPLE WHILE ATF SENT GUNS TO MEXICO!

Hard to believe, but it is true. Just when you thought that our United States government was doing all they possibly could to diminish the killing along the Mexican border, all of a sudden it was revealed that our Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) was actually delivering guns to suspected Mexican arms traffickers and then smuggled into Mexico, while our agents turned their heads!

Here's the unbelievable portion: It was confirmed that AK-47 style rifles found there were among the "hundreds---possibly thousands---of rifles allowed by ATF to "walk " from U.S. dealers' shelves into the hands of known and suspected firearm traffickers and across the border into the service of Mexican drug gangs!

In the two-plus years since Barack Obama took office and the ATF ramped up its "Project Gunrunner" and "Operation Fast and Furious" gun trafficking sting operations---

DRUG WAR HOMICIDES IN MEXICO HAVE NEARLY TRIPLED, according to an article published last weekend by Global Research!

TRIPLED!

Here is what else this important report said:

"While the upward trend in violence dates back to 2005, the major increase in violence came after a dramatic spike in 2008, as organized crime related homicides jumped to 6,837 killings, a 142% increase from 2007. After another increase of more than 40% to 9,614 killings in 2009, the number of killings linked to organized crime jumped by 59% in 2010, reaching a new record total of 15,273 deaths (Drug Violence in Mexico: Data and Analysis through 2010."

The truth of the matter is that it might have been all a big ATF "Cover-up!"

That's right: over 1,500 weapons were delivered to Mexican drug cartels, under the "disguise" of a supposed "sting" operation. And yet the drug cartel murder rate TRIPLED during this same time. We've got to put a stop to these killings!

The Obama administration is trying to claim that innocent people's guns in the United States are being used for crime in Mexico. They are trying to attack OUR Second Amendment rights.

U.S. Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) continues his investigation into the ATF's Mexican dealings.

In short: We want answers!

U.S. Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is trying to determine whether the gun used in the attack that killed Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Jaime Zapata---purchased at a Texas gun store in October---was smuggled into Mexico by buyers who were under investigation by ATF agents. He has asked the ATF why the purchasers of the gun used in the attack on Zapata were not arrested in November, a month after they bought the weapons. Now the Mexican government has a probe into the ATF and their guns.

This special report, entitled "DRUG VIOLENCE IN MEXICO: DATA AND ANALYSIS THROUGH 2010" shows that the body count has risen sharply at the same time that the Obama State department has allowed private arms sales to Mexico exceed those to Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel.

All this illicit gun trade happened after Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and others were pointing accusing fingers of blame at gun shops in the Southwest, gun shows and this country's supposed "lax" gun laws.

In addition to the TRIPLING of killings, many believe our own ATF helped to come about, there was unbelievable evidence that the current Mexican administration of Mexican President Calderon was also a culprit for killings. The report reads:

"During the period from 2007 to 2010, the total number of organized crime related homicides identified by the Mexican government reached 34,550. In other words, the number of organized crime homicides reported during the first four years of the Calderon administration was FOUR times greater than the total of 8,901 such killings identified during the ENTIRE (Vicente) Fox administration (2001-2006). With an estimated 76,131 intentional homicides in Mexico since 2007, killings related to organized crime accounted for about 45% of all murders in the country."

Will you urge our Congress to get to the very bottom of this unbelievable matter?

Our Second Amendment to the United States Constitution literally GUARANTEES us the right to keep and bear arms.

But this ATF Cover-Up can hack away at that right.

That's why we must get involved and ask our United States 'Congressmen to help Senator Grassley to get to the very bottom of this travesty of justice.

This isn't just about one Cover-Up of firearms. It is also about the United States Constitution; and YOUR right to keep and bear arms. That's why we seek your help in forcing the hand of this Congressional investigation!

However, I cannot help but think about the nominated head of the ATF, Mr. Andrew Traver. This is yet another nomination by Barack Obama to further his anti-gun agenda. This Chicago-crony is an anti-gun zealot that should have never been nominated! The Senate Judiciary refused to act on his nomination last fall. Once again nominated, earlier this year, his hearing has yet to be scheduled. There are approximately 80,000,000 gun owners in the United States who must come against this nominee who tried to rid Chicago of weapons, while he was their ATF head. He is an anti-gun zealot with a distinctive anti-gun bias. And his record proves that!

Mr. Obama and his anti-gun cohorts in the ATF want to strip you of your guns. Not just the nominated head of ATF like this, but so is the "Commander-in-Chief"---Barack Obama is anti-gun.

That's why you and I must remain strong. Private guns are guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. And NO ONE can take that right away!

This week, many ATF officials are in Washington, D.C. apparently preparing materials to respond to another Congressional investigation.

They are responding to a subpoena from U.S. Congressman Darrell Issa's House committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

This is very serious business. And to think that the killing rate TRIPLED while we had guns illegally brought into Mexico?!

Here's another problem that is very personal to you and to me...

These killings shed a bad light on gun-owners in the United States; and to some liberal lawmakers, it gives the "green light" to STOP some of our guaranteed freedoms to own a gun.

Will you help the Second Amendment Foundation financially to make sure that your Constitutional right is guaranteed? Our national media efforts to secure the Second Amendment rights remain strong.

Hundreds of weapons sold to known traffickers by the ATF to the Mexican drug cartel are inexcusable.

I understand about under-cover investigations and possibly the use of a few weapons to help EXPOSE the drug cartels. However---over 1,500 guns were sold to the drug cartels... AND NO ONE has been indicted! Something is literally wrong with this picture. I believe it is an ATF Cover-Up.

Congress needs to be informed about this; and something must be done! Will you help us today?

Now is the time that I really need to hear from you so our battle can continue to protect YOUR right to bear arms. Now is the time for you to decide; to help in this fight or not. I sincerely look forward to hearing from you on this very urgent matter.

Respectfully,

Alan M. Gottlieb
Chairman
Second Amendment Foundation

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