April 23rd, 2008
ABC News: U.S. Guns Arming Mexican Drug Gangs; Second Amendment to Blame?
U.S. efforts to stop the smuggling of tens of thousands of guns to Mexico, including high-powered assault weapons, have been hampered by lenient American gun laws and the Bush administration’s failure to give priority to anti-gun smuggling efforts, officials tell ABC News for a report Tuesday on ABC News’ “World News With Charles Gibson.”
They then go on to detail a number of specific weapons, including fully automatic AK-47s, M60 machine guns, short barrel rifles, and M203 40mm grenade launchers. All of which are either illegal or tightly restricted in the US.
But they don’t mention that, of course. And they don’t seem to understand much about the 1994 Federal assault weapons ban. It’s almost like they’re making mistakes on purpose or something.
Maybe Mexico should just lock down its border with the United States. I’m sure that suddenly the drug cartels would be unarmed.
April 24th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Wow, it makes you wonder if the Mexican government wasn’t sending so many people to invade this country, would they have access to all of those guns in this country? Doesn’t seem very likely. Being good citizens of the North American Union, though, it is better that we should give up our rights instead of defending our borders from illegal invaders. The way we are going, shipping all our jobs to Mexico and letting legal and illegal immigrants stream across our borders, we soon won’t have any choice but to comply with whatever Mexico deems is in their best interest. We won’t have the economic or military power to resist.