Posted on 03/19/2009 9:16:32 AM PDT by Califreak
During a March 17 combined hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs and the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, several U.S. officials put the spotlight on a new aspect of border control — stopping the southbound flow of guns and laundered cash into Mexico.
"Mexico and America are in this together, and there is enough blame to go around," said Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the subcommittee chairman and the Senate's assistant majority leader. "The insatiable demand for illegal drugs in the United States keeps the Mexican drug cartels in business." Durbin also stated that the Justice Department has found that three Mexican drug cartels — Federation, Gulf Coast, and Juarez — are active in Chicago, East St. Louis, and Joliet, Illinois. And he stated that lax U.S. gun laws and poor enforcement had created an "iron river of guns" that had armed "Mexican drug cartels to the teeth."
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D.-Calif.) seemed to relish the opportunity to use the hearings as a forum to push for more domestic gun control: "It is unacceptable to have 90 percent of the guns that are picked up in Mexico and used to shoot judges, police officers, mayors, kidnap innocent people and do terrible things come from the United States," said Feinstein. "I am appalled that you can buy a 50-caliber sniper weapon anywhere and it's not restricted to a federal firearms dealer — you can just buy it."
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(Perhaps the most important point that needs to be made about those (like Senator Feinstein) who want to make solving Mexico's illegal arms problem a U.S. problem, is that patrolling the other side of the border is Mexico's responsibility, not ours. Our Constitution tells our federal government to protect California and Arizona and New Mexico and Texas against invasion — not Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, and the rest of Mexico.)
Cowards, the whole stinking bunch of them.
“he stated that lax U.S. gun laws and poor enforcement”
So let’s see, according to Dick our gun laws are to blame for over 5000 murders in a country that has one of the strictest gun laws in the world?
The last wall designed to control what went OUT of a country was torn down a couple of decades ago.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D.-Calif.) is nothing more than Ted Kennedy is a dress.
I've said it before, I'll say it again, perhaps Mexico should consider erecting a wall on its side of the border to stem the flow of contraband into that country.
Will our gov’t start printing maps of the border for gun smugglers? Will an aid group on the south side of the border start putting reloading stations in the desert?
The beheadings and bombings take a bit more creativity when using guns.
Senator Dicky Durbin (D-Ill.) has been in Washington DC for 26 years, and helped create this mess!
Wrong-Way Corrigan Ping!
No difference here except that "Americans" are agreeing with them.
“It is unacceptable to have 90 percent of the guns that are picked up in Mexico and used to shoot judges, police officers, mayors, kidnap innocent people and do terrible things come from the United States,”
90%????
FLAT OUT LIE.
Build a fence -—end of story
But the DC traitors refuse to do this because they kiss the ass of the Hispanic pressure groups and kiss Mexico’s ass. They don’t listen to those who built America and fought in America’s wars and served in our militarily. And whose fathers and grandfathers did the same
Instead these craven bas****s listen to an up and coming demographic
The latino gangs are stealing the guns. Sure some dealers may be selling them, but many of them are stolen. Keep the illegal aliens and gangs out and the problem will solve itself.
I don’t know if the following was done by cartels, but you can bet many are.
San Jose gun club hit by thieves. 100 weapons stolen.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2210183/posts
>San Jose gun club hit by thieves. 100 weapons stolen.<
All these strict gun laws are working so well to keep the guns out of criminal hands aren’t they?
All these people do is lie and they aren’t even good at it!
They are acting like nobody even pays attention to them which, I suppose, the majority are not.
My blood is boiling today.
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