U.S. guns blamed for Jamaican crime

June 22, 1:15 PMGun Rights ExaminerDavid Codrea

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(AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

"Guns from America fuel Jamaica's gang wars," declares the AP headline.

Eighty percent of the weapons seized in the Caribbean island are traced back to the United States.

That's what the caption under the lead slide show photo says. But then there's this:

[O]f those whose origin can be traced, 80 percent come from the U.S...

Oh, that's a bit different. Gee, where have we seen this type of manipulation before?

Attempts to blame the U.S. for Jamaican crime are not new. Noises were being made about this years ago. And not just for U.S. guns being responsible for "gun deaths" in Jamaica, but also for U.S. guns being responsible for "gun deaths" in Canada.

Then again, we see the same tactic exploited domestically, with invented terms like "the Iron Pipeline" being used to decry states with "lax gun laws." Mind you, this presumes you need to agree with The New York Times on the meaning of "lax."

Left unsaid in the hysteria is the observation that somehow, those places enjoying such laxity also enjoy much more peaceful conditions, unlike the locales that employ near total "gun control"--like Chicago or...Jamaica.

And President Obama's assertion that "what works in Chicago may not work in Cheyenne" notwithstanding, it appears that every one of the "solutions" being promulgated at the national level are "one size fits all".

Maybe, just maybe, it's not the guns?

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