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I'm currently composing a response letter to someone who wrote a rebuttal to a previous letter I wrote to a newspaper in relation to the recenting shooting in El Paso and gun violence in the US as a whole. I had made the point in response to calls for stricter gun laws that Mexico has such laws and a 50% higher homicide rate than the US. His reponse was basically the question if I believe it's okay for racists to purchase assault rifles to murder people as well as the assertion that 80% of Mexican shootings are done by drug...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - President Vicente Fox defended his wife's political campaign appearances and social work Thursday, saying he and the first lady are a "presidential couple." Martha Sahagun, the president's former spokeswoman who married him in July 2001. Sahagun resigned as Fox's spokesman after their wedding and took an unpaid post as head of the charitable fund for Mexico's family welfare agency.