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  • Mexican standoff: Obama must ban assault weapons to halt violence on both sides of border

    04/21/2009 5:58:38 PM PDT · by pissant · 52 replies · 1,323+ views
    NY Daily News ^ | 4/20/09 | editors
    Much of the talk about the U.S.-Mexico relationship these days centers on the flow of illegal guns south over the border. Fair enough, and long overdue. American weapons, easily bought thanks to woefully lax gun-control laws, are winding up in the arsenal of Mexican drug cartels, who are murdering thousands and destabilizing our southern neighbor. The havoc is spilling over into our border states. But let's not neglect an equally dangerous trend in firearm trafficking - namely, the flow of illegal weapons from America's Southern states north, especially to big cities like New York. As crime has declined in some...
  • Obama heeding lesson from ‘94 gun ban

    04/21/2009 5:23:46 PM PDT · by neverdem · 43 replies · 3,312+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | April 20, 2009 | STEWART M. POWELL and JENNIFER A. DLOUHY
    WASHINGTON — The last time a Democratic president and a Democratic Congress banned civilian sales of military-style assault weapons, it took American voters just seven weeks to rebel. They handed Republicans control of the House and the Senate for the first time in 40 years. One of the casualties in the backlash was Rep. Jack Brooks, D-Beaumont, who sponsored the ban and then promptly lost his seat in Congress in 1994 after 42 years of service. The lesson wasn’t lost on President Obama when Mexican President Felipe Calderon suggested reviving the defunct weapons’ ban to help combat drug cartel violence...
  • Rendell debates NRA on gun control

    04/19/2009 6:14:50 PM PDT · by Kid Shelleen · 26 replies · 1,650+ views
    Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 04/19/2009 | Amy Worden
    Taking his campaign for stronger gun control measures to the national stage, Gov. Rendell squared off with a top National Rifle Association official on national television today over the federal ban on assault weapons. Speaking on CBS’s Face the Nation, Rendell said there was no “rational reason” to allow the sale of assault weapons. “They are used for only one reason…to kill and maim people,” he said. Rendell, who has fought unsuccessfully for years in the state Legislature for tougher gun control, revived his efforts following the slayings this month of three Pittsburgh police officers, killed by a man armed...