There's nothing new about trying to push other nations' problems as a reason to curtail our rights, and they're doing it again.

Haiti is an island nation that's never exactly been the most advanced society in many ways. It's had its problems for ages, and there's nothing new about them. They may intensify and subside as the years march on, but they're always there.

And yes, they have a ton of gun control

Criminals, as they tend to do, are simply finding a way around those laws. And once again, American anti-gunners are trying to put that on us.

“Haiti Doesn’t Make Guns,” The New York Times reported Sunday. “So How Are Gangs Awash in Them?”

Who wants to guess where they’re going with this?

“Critics say not enough is done to regulate the sale of weapons in the United States to straw buyers, an illegal practice in which people buy guns on behalf of another person, including traffickers,” the report dutifully claims. “The practice is responsible for a large number of the arms that wind up used in crimes in Mexico and throughout Latin America.”

Anybody else getting a “This is how Operation Fast and Furious ‘gunwalking’ started” vibe? Because it is. The parroted narrative was that “Lax American gun laws” were responsible for Mexican cartel carnage. Lather, rinse, repeat.

“That’s where you can stop this,” The Times article quotes Jonathan Lowy, founder of Global Action on Gun Violence.  He’s the former Chief Counsel and VP Legal for Brady, whose group operates at the same address as the Violence Policy Center, and who has been behind efforts like Mexico suing U.S. gun makers and a  lawsuit filed in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights arguing “that Inter-American human rights law requires the United States to prevent firearms manufacturers, distributors, and dealers from recklessly making and selling guns in ways that cause deaths and injuries.”

“If you stop the flow of guns and bullets, the gangs eventually, literally, run out of ammunition,” the story quotes William O’Neil, “the UN Independent Expert on the Human Rights Situation in Haiti.”

So, The Times go-to guys on what the public will be told about this are career globalist gun-grabbers. Figures. God forbid they should cite anyone who doesn’t share their goals or at least file this story under “editorial.”

Honestly, this doesn't surprise me in the least. People like New York Times reporters know the phone numbers of a lot of gun control supporters. They don't seem to know how to reach out to anyone on this side of the debate to get our take on it.

Funny, that.

Anyway, let's remember that exports to countries like Haiti are illegal without State Department approval. You can't just pack up a bunch of guns and send them to your buddy down there. It's also illegal on that end for your buddy to receive them.

Further, the straw buyers cited above are already breaking the law. I honestly don't know what else they could do to "regulate the sale of weapons ...to straw buyers" when it's already illegal. Are we supposed to make it extra illegal? Double Secret Illegal? Honestly, that's the most ridiculous claim in a report full of them, because I honestly don't see what else one could do on that front.

Even if you could, though, straw buys only account for a small percentage of guns trafficked in total.

What that means is that many of these guns probably aren't straw buys, but stolen guns in the first place. Even if you could stomp out straw buys entirely, all it would do is shift more toward stolen guns.

The truth is that Haiti is a craphole, like a lot of other third-world nations, and one full of corruption, poverty, and everything else we think of when we discuss third-world crapholes. When you've got a cocktail like that, you're going to create an environment for criminality, and where there are criminals, they'll seek out guns.

Until that's addressed, Haiti's problems are never going to go away.

Curtailing our rights isn't going to fix anything.