07-05-2009, 10:20 AM
Quote:But the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which handles the U.S. investigations, is at the mercy of local Mexican police for the amount and quality of the information.
"Many of these rural municipalities that may come into a gun seizure ... may not even know anything about tracing guns," ATF spokesman Thomas Mangan said.
A police officer in Mexico submits a description, serial number and distinctive markings of the gun. The weapons are then turned over to the military for storage in one of a dozen armories such as the one in Mexico City.
Oh really. The ATF have difficulty tracking a weapon's unique serial number which is stamped on the weapon for ---- oddly enough ---- solely the purpose of tracking weapons.
The words crap and bullshit spring to mind. But then again this is the ATF, who are, it seems, staffed by politically blind monkeys - see no evil, hear no evil and say no evil.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14