Posted on 03/18/2009 6:38:22 PM PDT by neverdem
Attorney General Eric Holder is using the drug violence in Mexico to "confuse and mislead" Americans in an attempt to reinstate the expired federal assault weapons ban, gun advocates say.
Get ready for a gunfight.
Holder revealed his intention to reinstate the ban last month while announcing more than 700 arrests in connection with a crackdown on Mexican drug cartels operating in the United States.
"As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to re-institute the ban on the sale of assault weapons," Holder said. "I think that will have a positive impact in Mexico, at a minimum."
Holder said reinstating the ban would decrease the flow of guns from the U.S. into Mexico. He declined to offer a timeframe for any re-implementation; Justice Department spokesman Matt Miller also declined comment on Tuesday.
But Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, told FOXNews.com that Holder's "argument in general is bizarre."
"It's a delusion to say that diminishing the Second Amendment in America is somehow going to stop these ruthless drug cartels in Mexico."
LaPierre called on Holder and Justice Department officials to uphold existing laws and focus on increasing enforcement along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border, rather than consider additional legislation...
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Yeah, scary, ain’t it???
I had a gun once but it scared me so much that I gave it to a friend. He was grateful. That was a long time ago and I do not even remember his name.
I guess I’ll just do the best I can if TEOTWAWKI comes.
You had better do so more reading. The charge is that Mexican drug cartels are getting full auto weapons, rocket launchers etc. through gun dealers in the states. This is just plain BS. They are using that as a scare tactic to stampede the ignorant masses who know nothing about firearms or the laws already in place in the USA.
This has nothing to do with reality, only another "crisis" that needs governmental interference to solve, in their opinion.
The fact is Mexico's problems are not ours. Gun stores cannot sell full auto weapons except to proper permit holders, also they can't get their hands on an amount sufficient to arm large numbers of drug runners. Neither can they obtain or sell RPGs, handgrenades, etc. Even if they could, it is Mexico's problem not ours.
Joined the Alarm and Muster movement right after it was established, its growing rapidly. As long as we all stand together, We The People, cannot be defeated.
The gun hating leftist aka progressives have one goal for the right to bear arms. And that is to remove the 2nd amend from the bill of rights.
The gun hating leftist aka progressives have tried many things to achieve this.
Federal, State, and city gun bans.
Gun control laws like gun registration, background checks, CCW laws, limits on how many handguns a person could purchase a year, or month.
Read the first link in comment# 1. 65 rats in the House told Holder to take a powder.
Yes this is fallout from the late AWB. But that does not mean the gun hating leftist aka progressives have given up on the one goal to remove the 2nd amend from the bill of rights.
“Ammo clip” sounds so much more ominous and sinister than “magazine”.
good on ya!
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