[Makarov]

Originally Posted by Calgaryborn

In your own link the Council on Hemispheric affairs is discribed as a left wing think tank.

I don't see anywhere in the wikipedia article or COHA's website where it is described as a left wing think tank. In fact, the following is from COHA's website:

COHA subscribes to no specific political credo nor does it maintain partisan allegiances. It supports open and democratic political processes just as it consistently has condemned authoritarian regimes of any stripe that fail to provide their populations with even minimal standards of political freedoms, economic and social justice, personal security and civic guarantees.

Originally Posted by Calgaryborn

As I explained before these high percentages they are throwing out are bunk:

http://www.youdecidepolitics.com/200...-come-from-us/

http://www.factcheck.org/2009/04/counting-mexicos-guns/

They have been exposed as bunk for a long time. Anyone(not meaning you) who is still using them has an agenda that doesn't include the truth.

Thanks for those links. That does clear things up a little. Here is the conclusion from www.factcheck.org:

Given the lack of hard data from Mexico, we can’t calculate a precise figure for what portion of crime guns have been traced to the U.S. Based on the best evidence we can find so far, we conclude that the 90 percent claim made by the president and others in his administration lacks a basis in solid fact. But we also conclude that the number is at least double what Fox News has reported, based on its reporters’ mistaken interpretation of ATF testimony.

Whether the number is 90 percent, or 36 percent, or something else, there’s no dispute that thousands of guns are being illegalIy transported into Mexico by way of the United States each year.

Originally Posted by Calgaryborn

Any gun law limits personal freedom. How can a Government of the People justify doing that when they are failing in their own responsibility to protect?

Governments limit personal freedoms in countless different ways every day. Governments also fail to protect their citizens in countless different ways every day. So I don't understand how you can conclude that governments are precluded from limiting personal freedoms if the fail to protect their citizens in any way? Indeed, limiting personal freedoms (for example, controlling the possession and use of guns) is one of the primary ways that governments seek to protect their citizens (for example, from gun violence.)