Posted on 02/05/2012 6:28:45 AM PST by marktwain
DO AMERICA’S failed gun policies contribute to the terrible violence in Mexico? Alejandro A. Poire Romero makes a compelling case that the answer is yes.
Law enforcement officials in both countries acknowledge that 70 to 80 percent of the traceable guns seized in Mexico can be tracked to the United States. Mr. Poire Romero, a top Mexican national security and criminal justice official, offers additional evidence that the United States has been an enabler of the violence.
In 2005 roughly one-third of the seized guns were assault weapons. Today, according to Mr. Poire Romero, assault weapons represent 60 to 65 percent of the guns confiscated by Mexican authorities. The assault-weapons ban in the United States lapsed in 2004.
“The significant rise in violence and the increase in the number of public officials killed in Mexico coincides with lifting of the assault weapons ban,” Mr. Poire Romero said.
Mr. Poire Romero met with Post editors and reporters on the day that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. was again being grilled on Capitol Hill about “Operation Fast and Furious,” during which U.S. law enforcement agents, in order to trace weapons to higher-ups in a criminal enterprise, failed to interdict guns bought by suspected straw purchasers. The operation, a version of which was undertaken during the George W. Bush administration, was deeply flawed; some 2,000 weapons are unaccounted for. Weapons traced to Fast and Furious purchases were found on the scene of the 2010 killing of a Border Patrol agent. These revelations led to the resignation of the U.S. attorney in Phoenix and reassignment of the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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No, a corrupt Government breaking a ton of laws and violating national security is the reason. The Washington Compost can kiss my @$$.
LIBs have no shame. The Washington Pest is trash. Their writers and editors are unprofessional, low-integrity morons. The Pest lost $40 million last year. Good.
sarcasm drip...
If more gun laws are the politicians reaction to ‘gun violence’, how come they don’t introduce more drug laws every time a major drug seizure is made, or a crackhead kills someone or a drug cartel gang in north podunk is busted?
/drip
Mexico's Gun Supply and the 90 Percent Myth STRATFOR article reprized at GOA
The Myth of 90 Percent: Only a Small Fraction of Guns in Mexico Come From U.S. FOX News
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