They say an empty vessel makes the most noise. That’s probably why, whenever anti-Second Amendment nutcase David Hogg opines on firearms and gun laws, he sounds like a cement truck with a bad muffler driving through an alarm clock factory. And, while he’s loud, he’s also predictably wrong, every time, and that’s as sure as shootin’ (hah).
His latest foray into the nonsensical comes in reaction to the ongoing cartel war in Mexico; young Mr. Hogg, desperately trying to stretch his 15 minutes of fame to half an hour, took to X to make, yet again, a claim that has been debunked a million times.
You guys wanna take a wild guess at where 90% of the guns used by the cartel come from? It’s America. Our weak gun laws are literally arming the cartels that perpetuate so much of the violence driving mass migration. https://t.co/IGdMKt5DDg
— David Hogg 🟧 (@davidhogg111) February 23, 2026
There’s just one problem with that claim: It’s the purest of stuff one finds at the aft end of a horse.
First of all, he’s wrong about the 90 percent claim. It’s not 90 percent of the guns used by cartels. It is 90 percent (give or take) of the guns submitted by Mexico to the United States for tracing by serial number, because they were already presumed to have come from the United States. In other words, 90 percent of the guns presumed to have come from the United States were confirmed to have come from the United States.
Well, duh. This was debunked way back in 2009. The correct number of firearms seized in Mexico and tracked to the United States was, in 2009, about 17 percent. Similar numbers have been reported as recently as 2021. Mr. Hogg is either monumentally ignorant or deliberately misstating the facts – or both. I’m inclined to embrace the power of “and” in this case.
Also, young Mr. Hogg has apparently never heard of the Obama administration’s Operation Fast and Furious, otherwise known as the ATF gunwalking scandal, wherein the Obama administration and Attorney General Eric Holder let thousands of American-made guns slide across the border, bound south, in one of the most incompetent cluster foul-ups that the United States government has ever attempted.
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A year or so back, I remember seeing a video taken from the Texas side of the border. The video portrayed events on the Mexico side that was said to be a clash between civil authorities and cartels on the south side of the border, and while you couldn’t see much, the audio was clear; the cartels were employing at least two full-up, crew-served machine guns. Not AR-15s, not AK-pattern rifles, that people who don’t know their fourth point of contact from a hole in the ground about guns describe as “machine guns.” No, these were real, no-kidding machine guns, the sort that you can’t just buy at the local gun shop – these had to have come, one way or another, from the Mexican military or some other military source.
Also, our recent reporting indicates that the cartels are also fielding grenade launchers and rocket launchers. Does Mr. Hogg presume those are somehow coming from the United States as well?
David Hogg is like so many on the left: He has a pet cause. He knows little or nothing about the object of his cause, but he speaks freely on this topic he knows very little about, and in every news piece, no matter what the topic, he manages to do a verbal lateral arabesque to make it about his pet cause and somehow manage to maneuver himself back into the spotlight. The problem he has is this: He’s utterly reliable in that every time he opens his mouth, every time he vents his spleen on X, he says something dumb. This case is no exception.
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