Seventy-Three percent of statistics are made up

The rest of them are just distorted to fit an agenda. It was only last month that I read an article claiming that the United States was to blame for the Mexican drug wars because we provided the guns. It was last week that I watched an interview with the mayor of El Paso asking for military help in searching vehicles headed to Mexico to prevent illegal smuggling of guns.

I laughed this week when my husband started defending our country to the group of computer programmers he works with on his spare-time volunteer programing project. I asked why he was talking politics with them and he explained, "They're all from Europe and think America is full of nothing but gun-toting, cowboy-hat wearing hicks."

I was heart-broken over the story of Spc. Richard Raymond Medina Torres, an American solider, who accidentally drove over the border bridge from El Paso to Ciudad Juarez with weapons in his car. He subsequently spent five weeks in a Mexican prison. But when he was finally released, he came home with "no hard feelings." He understood that the Mexican people have the right to enforce their own laws and they have a legitimate desire to keep American-made weapons out of the hands of the drug lords. After all, 90 percent of the guns used in crime in Mexico come from America, right?

Wrong. This article from Fox News is one of the best I've read. Check it out here. You'll be shocked by how easy it was for politicians to use incorrect statistics to push their own agendas.