[Rick Lee]

I didn't catch it all, but what I did see left me shaking my head or yelling "bullsheet" at the tv. Now, I don't mind Phoenix having a bad reputation at all. I wish it were as bad as Detroit's so fewer people (especially from KA) would move here. But Lisa Ling made it look like Phoenix is more dangerous than Iraq or Afghanistan. Why can't I remember the last time I read about a suicide bombing here or heard a gunshot in anger? Yes, Phoenix has a lot of kidnappings. But 100% of them involve illegal aliens and/or drug runners (but I repeat myself). If you don't run in those circles, you are totally untouched by this. Even when I've been in some of the seedier areas of town, I have not had the slightest feeling of being in danger and it's nothing close to what I regularly saw in DC. Ling also interviewed a local gun store owner, who will likely be boycotted now. The weapons she showed recovered in Mexico were a grenade launcher and an M-60. Everyone knows these cannot be purchased legally in the US by any civilian. Yet, the show went on to say that the Mexican drug gangs are getting their arms from Arizona. They forgot to mention that those arms, while made in the US, go to the Mexican military and are then stolen by or sold to the drug gangs. If they were able to track down the DC snipers by bullets recovered from a tree stump in WA State, why can't they show a single gun recovered in Mexico that was legally bought in a gun store in AZ? I have never once seen this shown on tv, yet it's all we hear about. We always see trucks full of drugs and cash, but they can't seem to come up with any guns bought in gun stores in AZ.

Anyway, this is just another example of a so-called investigative "journalist" coming up with a show to support her pre-existing and uninformed opinions on something she really has no clue about.