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Holder continues his attack on 2nd Amendment
02/25/2009
At a press conference today announcing the drug cartel arrests (in which he had little to no involvement), US AG Holder also suggested that re-instituting a U.S. ban on the sale of assault weapons would help reduce the bloodshed in Mexico, where last year 6,000 people were killed in drug-related violence.
Unfortunately it looks like the only thing that is going to reduce the bloodshed down in Mexico at this point in the game is more bloodshed. They need to start taking a lot more of these people out. Arrest them, kill them, whatever it takes. Eventually the various drug trafficking organizations down there will start to figure out that what they are doing down there is bad for business and bringing them all of the worst kind of attention and they'll decide they need to lay low and knock off the crazy stuff. For a while anyway Mexico could have relative peace. The drug trade won't stop though. It never does. And the violence will come back, because that's just the nature of that illegal business.
Banning assault rifles here though won't do a lick of good. They're not buying most of that military grade stuff here anyway, because it is not for sale, legally anyway. If they can't get their handguns and semi-auto assault rifles here they'll just buy weapons from somewhere else. They've got the money and they've got the connections. Holder and the Mexican government are barking up the wrong tree with this. The Mexicans just want to cast blame on others besides themselves and people like Holder are just looking for an excuse to restrict gun rights.
If only we could think of a way to deprive them of most of their money. Then they wouldn't have money to buy so many guns and hire so many thugs and cause so many problems.