Posted on 03/26/2009 9:24:07 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
MEXICO CITY (AFP) – The Obama administration wants to crack down on the sale of assault weapons that are arming Mexican drug cartels, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in an interview with NBC television.
Clinton late Wednesday called letting a previous US ban on the sale of assault weapons expire "a mistake."
"I think these assault weapons, these military style weapons, don't belong on anyone's street," said Clinton who pushed for the ban as a New York senator.
"During the time period from 1994 to 2004, when the ban was in effect, our police in America were able to drive crime down because they didn't have to worry about these assault weapons getting into the hands of criminals and gang members," the chief US diplomat said.
"So we will make the case that we need to put more teeth in the law, try to prohibit the sale outside of our borders of these guns," Clinton said.
But, she acknowledged, a move to renew the ban would draw strong opposition.
"We're going to talk to the Congress, I'm not going to sugarcoat it. It's a very heavy lift," Clinton said.
On the plane to Mexico City, Clinton said drug gangs were "outgunning" Mexican law enforcement with military-style equipment that also included night-vision goggles and body armor.
Clinton is scheduled to visit a police station in Mexico City on Thursday as part of her consultations on the drug wars that have left 6,300 people dead in Mexico since 2008 and that are spilling over the border in the form of kidnappings and other violence.
She is due later to travel to the northern city of Monterrey, near the border with Texas.
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Exactly, here is an older related thread that talks about the relationship between the "war on drugs" and Second Amendment restrictions.
The war on guns: Joel Miller explains how drug cops are killing 2nd Amendment
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1162877/posts
So if there’s the chance of criminals and gang members getting their hands on assault weapons cops can’t drive crime down? Why not? Illegal weapon possession is a crime. She’s an even bigger idiot than I thought.
Wake up America, We Passed NAFTA in order to insure the Free Flow of Contraband across the Mexican Border. Thats Why the Fed doesnt want a border fence or Border security. it would seriously hamper their illegal fund raising. The Drug War is the number 1 reason we willnever have any Border Security, We Need the War on Drugs more than anything else. 90% of all Controlled Substances come in thru Mexico, If we closed the Border the War on Controlled Substances would be over immediately. Do you honestly believe we are gouing to FIRE 75-85% of the Jack Booted Thugs out there pretending to be Peace Officers?? We have entire Cities dependent on Civil Asset Forfeiture. We need the War on Controlled Substances to continue at all Costs. Dont believe?? look up the Kerry Commission Report from the 80’s, or how about Attorney General William French Smith receiving SPECIAL PERMISSION to Import Cocaine on Military transport planes, so they could sell it and supply the sandinistas or the contras in Nicaragua ( i forget which side we were on)
Conspiracy Theory: Obama shipped a 1000 asault wapons to Mexico drug lords to provide reason to ban them here
I'm screwed for I lost all of mine and my firearms while carrying them when my boat tipped over the other day and it was a very deep spring fed lake nick named "bottomless".
Just d#mn!
"During the time period from 1994 to 2004, when the ban was in effect, our police in America were able to drive crime down because they didn't have to worry about these assault weapons getting into the hands of criminals and gang members," the chief US diplomat said.
What a lying b***h. "Legal" "assault" weapons are rarely on the street. They're in normal civilians homes, or on the range, or in the field. "Assault" weapons sold legally, rarely end up in the hands of criminals or gang members. The vast majority of LEGALLY owned "assault" weapons have rarely been used in a crime.
If crime went down during the period stated, it was NOT BECAUSE of the "assault" weapons ban.
A cop would have to be a complete imbecile, to think that after any type of weapons ban were inacted, he were automatically safer.
Didn’t the US train and equip elite drug interdiction units of the Mexican Military? And haven’t a lot of these people opted for higher pay by working for the drug cartels (probably using US taxpayer funded weapons)?
the weapons are getting in at entry points, right in front of border agents?
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surprise surprise..
To answer that question, I would only ask how many agents have been sent to prison for smuggling illegals to make ends meet?
“I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”
While heck, I sure believe anything she has to say.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHVEDq6RVXc
And that's considered, not only legal but compassionate governing.
What was it Nixon said?
Something like "I'm as mad as....
Oh, I can't remember.
Why yes they did, and yes they did.
And just try finding mags for the AR-10 or AP4.
Agents?
All this time I thought they were trained to be traffic cops...
>LOL....they can’t control a few border jumping drug punks but they think they can control 80 million US gun owners? Fools....
I’d be more inclined to agree with you if US citizens weren’t used to getting it in the @$$ from Bubba and his posse of thugs (congress).
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And how exactly again do they get to decide that some problem in Mexico is best solved by curtailing my God-given civil rights?
They better look elsewhere, or it’ll be time to hit the government reset button that same constitution gives us.
So it’s true that some weapons are going right through checkpoints?
I still maintain that the vast majority of the weapons being used by the cartels are coming through the Mexican military, not across the border.
Well, one is on my street you b!tch so just try to take it away.
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