Mexico Looking at Second Amendment?

Gun Watch ^ | 11 October, 2016 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

Mexico had a flourishing, legal, gun culture until 1972, when the Mexican government made private, legal, ownership of guns extremely difficult and expensive.  The change in law was meant to disarm the political opposition and keep the existing power structure in place.  The power structure has remained in place, but it has not flourished.  Much of Mexico is contested ground, with narco-cartels that are not aligned with the Mexican government in armed conflict with the Government and its cartel allies.  Private citizens are caught in the crossfire, abused by both sides, and denied the legal ability to arm themselves.

There are plenty of firearms in Mexico. Most of them are illegal.  It degrades what respect for law there is by Mexican citizens.  A Mexican senator wants to change that. From chron.com:

On October 6, 2016, Mexican Senator Jorge Luis Preciado of the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) published a policy recommendation in the Senate Gazette to amend Article 10 of the Mexican Constitution to emulate the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, allowing Mexico citizens to carry handguns for personal protection in their homes, vehicles and businesses.

Preciado argues that the natural right to possess arms as a means of self-defense is affirmed in the Second Amendment, which states that “a well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” Preciado stated that Mexicans, too, “have the right to legitimate self-defense, and if a criminal enters my house or my business, he should at least know that on the other side there could be someone that has a weapon with which to respond … because we have organized groups that are completely armed and we have a society that is in a complete state of defenselessness.”

Quite a few guns flow from the United States to Mexico illegally.  Most of them are smuggled in one by one by Jose the gardener to his uncle Juan, who wants that .22 rimfire rifle and some shells for his granja (farm).

When you look at the auto-defensa (self defense) groups, which are modern equivalents of the militias spoken of in the Second Amendment, they are mostly armed with .22 rimfire rifles and inexpensive shotguns.

Mexico has tried the strict gun control policies being promoted by the "progressives" in the United States.  They have failed miserably.  Mexico is in the middle of armed strife within its borders, with most of the citizens legally disarmed. Senator Jorge Luis Preciado offers a different option, one that allows Mexican citizens to hold their heads high, and fight for their country and their communities. Armed citizens can defend themselves, and demand justice, and accountable government.


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[marktwain]

Several countries are considering loosening their gun laws to allow for broader self defense. They include Brazil, Germany, Panama, and Nigeria.

[VermithraxPejorative]

Mexico thinks it’s funny helping all the illegals of the world across our border. Just wait until the Muslim refugees start because they will not stop just with the US and Canada or Europe.

[CodeToad]

I hope they do. Every free man deserves defense. I also think it will help elevate Mexico from third-world status when the people can fight back against the corrupt government.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Oh please, let this happen.

[going hot]

Regards the current status, " The change in law was meant to disarm the political opposition and keep the existing power structure in place.

Pretty much why any nation, including the US, wants to abolish guns.

The practice is known the world over by dictators and democrats.

[FR_addict]

It’s about time!

[BitWielder1]

And no more arresting Americans who carry a legally owned gun into Mexico.

[Bon of Babble]

A friend visited friends in Mexico years ago (I thought after 1972) who lived on a ranchero. He said there was a whole array of guns of all types that were sitting on the kitchen table, loaded, and in full view.

Asked what it was for, his Mexican hosts said “to keep squatters away” - I’d say they have bigger problems than squatters now...

[T-Bone Texan]

Most people do not realize that Mexico has a racist, hierarchically-structured society predicated on keeping the brown people down.

The very last thing the white elites of Mexico want is guns in the hands of the brown people, who they hate and distrust.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I am always reminded of the scene in VIVA ZAPATA when the peons turn in their guns. Then the Army attacks them.

[marktwain]

Here is an article exploring the possibility of international reciprocity.

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2016/10/thinking-ahead-international.html

[marktwain]

Lots of Mexicans have guns. The guns are possessed illegally.

Most Mexicans have a low opinion of the “Authorities”. The rule of law is enforced very selectively and with little reliability.

It can be decent in some locations, terrible in others. Much seems to depend on who you know.

[Spirochete]

Hillary wins and the USA gets firearms prohibition.

Then Senator Jorge Luis Preciado wins and Mexico gets RKBA, followed by...

thousands of gringos fleeing the US and settling in Mexico as illegal squatters. The world is upside-down. It could happen.

[CedarDave]

A judge who handled 'El Chapo' Guzmán's extradition was killed in Mexico, and the kingpin's lawyer says he had nothing to do with it

Vicente Antonio Bermudez Zacarias, a Mexican federal judge who handled cases related to organized crime, was gunned down by an unknown assailant in Mexico state on Monday morning, dying on the way to the hospital. Bermudez, 37, was shot in the head at point-blank range while jogging near his home in the town of Metepec.

[justa-hairyape]

Hate to inform the Mexican government of this, but a plan to keep a wide open northern border, while enacting strict gun control, could never ever possible work in the long run.

[marktwain]

One of the “benefits” of gun control is the creation of lots of law breakers, who live with the threat of prosecution hanging over their head.

It is the classic Ayn Rand quote.