Posted on 05/21/2010 4:49:23 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
MEXICAN PRESIDENT Felipe Calderón has shown courage in leading his government to take on the violent drug gangs that have claimed thousands of Mexican lives. On Thursday, he displayed a different kind of fortitude: standing before a joint meeting of Congress and asking for a revival of the U.S. assault weapons ban. The Obama administration, which has been largely absent in the fight against the illegal gun trade, should have such backbone.
Mr. Calderón, who has been in Washington for a state visit, made a powerful case. Over the past three years, Mexican authorities have seized some 75,000 weapons used in crimes; more than 80 percent of those they were able to trace came from the United States. Mr. Calderón argued that the surge in violent, cartel-related crimes coincided with the 2004 repeal of the U.S. assault weapons ban.
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When they say “traced to the USA” do they mean they came from the retail market in the US or does it just mean that they were manufactured by an American company?
I know. It IS frustrating, isn't it? All this modern technology and we just haven't been able to come up with anything.
Take heart, though. I'm SURE our benevolent federal government has the BEST minds in the country working 24/7 on the problem even as I type this...
;-)
not surprising the Washington Post pushes crap like this.
better info from a cracker jack box.
IF there are any guns going south we should put a stop to it, We need those firearms to stay here, on the border, pointed south.
The author does not deserve to breath free air.
From what I have read, 20% or fewer are actually traceable.
Also, U.S. firearms manufacturers make guns and ship them, legally, to the governments of many Latin American countries, including Mexico (after all, we make some of the best firearms in the world right here in the good Ol’ USA). But I wonder what country THOSE guns are “traced to” when (not if, WHEN) they turn up in the hands of the drug gangs.
Yup. There the guns into Mexico is all BS.
Wow! You must be one of those wackos who thinks the Bill of Rights applies to him, peronally!
;-)
PS - The above words were actually, and SERIOUSLY, said to me once by a person who I had previously thought had a b rain.
DITTO! hit the road Jack and don’t come back no more, no more.
Its just a ‘plausible’ excuse for the gun grabbers to promote their agenda. If Congress does pass an assault weapons ban look for it to be far more draconian than the last. I suspect there will be no grandfathering and either you lose your weapons now or when you die. Either way LE has a big problem on their hands.
Also pls recall the sunset of the last assault weapons ban...in retrospect it was shown to be a completely worthless law.
How much of the drugs entering the US are traceable to Mexico. Using Mexican logic cant we blame the traffic in guns on Mexican DEMAND?
It’s the same tired lie the freedom haters parade around.
(sarc)No. Not the WaPo! Say it isn't so....(/sarc)
When can we start decorating lamp posts with these TRAITORS?
I don't understand why the media always calls the tyrants who support gun control "courageous" They're the exact opposite - hiding behind layers of armed securty personnel. I'll go along with the "courageous" appellation if and only if they
Machine guns are so difficult to obtain in the US that it is much easier to smuggle them in from other countries.
nuke mexico
This whole visit was nothing but a propaganda campaign set up by the Obamao regime, right down to the planted “poor kid whose parents are in this country illegally” to the horse hockey about the guns.
I have had just about enough out of the lot of them.
Because they're shameless bootlickers, that's why. Useful idiots whose great reward will be the end of a rope. Imagine their surprise.
Subtitle Translation:
“Obama administration should ignore America's call to crack down on illegal immigration”
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