Illustrative.

Government gun control thugs have repeated many times that 90% of the guns that Mexican drug cartels use in their crimes come from the United States.

Ha. They left a word out of that statement: 90% of traced firearms come from the US. That adds up to about 17% of total guns that the Mexican government seized from violent criminal cartels.

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World offers us a probable reason: in that deceptive utopia, children were trained by repetitions at night of "moral truths." Things that the authorities wanted them to believe. And, like the inhabitants of Huxley's dystopia, we are trained with government-sponsored media repetitions to believe certain things without question: that the rich get richer while the poor get poorer (but no one mentions congressional income at all), that guns kill people (uh-huh, they just jump up and shoot people for the fun of it), that 90% of the guns in Mexico came from the US.

"...upwards of sixty-two thousand repetitions in the dark" have made most of us unthinking sheep. We accept, as Huxley's characters did, anything we're told as "axiomatic, self-evident, utterly indisputable."

Repetitions of lies condition us to accept any lie they want to spoon feed us, without thinking for ourselves, "Is this true? Where lie the facts of the situation?" The media, well, they report what's going on, right? (Only what they want you to know, dear.) They report the truth, right? (Slanted until it's lies, dear.) They're giving us the information that we have the right to know, right? (Only if it's what's good for you, dear.)

As Huxley's magnificent novel demonstrates, despite the wishes of the powers that be, no amount of repetition of lies make those lies the truth--only the common view.

And any common view may be challenged and swept aside with fact.