Calderon's shot at American guns

Washington Times ^ | May 24, 2010 | Masthead Editorial

[neverdem]

Felipe Calderon received liberal plaudits for falsely claiming Arizona's new immigration law uses racial profiling, but that wasn't the only baloney the Mexican president peddled during his state visit. Over four minutes of his Thursday address to Congress was spent lecturing Americans to renew the federal Assault Weapons Ban that sunset in September 2004. His justifications for the ban were all garbage.

Mr. Calderon claimed that guns covered by the federal ban were particularly "powerful weapons." While the term "assault weapons" may conjure up visions of military hardware, the inside guts of these feared guns are essentially the same as deer hunting rifles. The firing mechanisms in semiautomatics and machine guns are completely different. The entire firing mechanism of a semi-automatic gun has to be removed and replaced to turn it into a military weapon like an AK-47.

Mr. Calderon's propaganda aside, Mexican drug gangs are getting real military weapons from within Mexico, countries south of his border and other places around the world. Reports indicate that grenades and rocket launchers in use in Mexico aren't even available for sale in the United States and come from places like South Korea, Israel and Spain. Between 2007 and 2009, 2,239 grenades were seized by the Mexican government, and those weren't from here. Markings similarly show that machine guns in Mexico largely originate from China, Israel and South Africa...

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It is offensive for Mr. Calderon to come here as our guest and make up facts to blame America for Mexico's many problems. But it was more frightening to witness Democratic House and Senate members jump up and give a standing ovation when the foreigner called for renewing the Assault Weapons Ban. That's a warning all American gun owners should heed.

[ozzymandus]

Calderon is a lying POS. Naturally, he received a standing O from our home-grown POSs.

[ironwill]

[Brad from Tennessee]

[When they bring the drugs in, they must also illegally buy or steal these weapons...]

Yeah, they change into camouflage pants and NRA T-shirts and visit all the gun shows and flea markets.

[neverdem]

Liberty destroyers on the won’s horizon......
1) Takeover of the finance industry
2) Cap and Tax
3) Pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan
4) Amnesty for 30 million new voters (aka comprehensive illegal alien reform)
5) Getting RAT Senate to ratify Nuke Treaty
6) signing on to the UN gun treaty

Like they renewed the assault weapons ban? To the extent that they need Congress, they don't have the votes.

[backhoe]

Keep these handy...

Click the pic to go to the Gun Facts v4.2 download page!

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[TribalPrincess2U]

Liberty destroyers on the won’s horizon...... 1) Takeover of the finance industry 2) Cap and Tax 3) Pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan 4) Amnesty for 30 million new voters (aka comprehensive illegal alien reform) 5) Getting RAT Senate to ratify Nuke Treaty 6) signing on to the UN gun treaty

And the worse part is he tells us he's going to these and make people think it's all a good thing. The media and the 0 voters have sold their souls.

[PATRIOT1876]

"Heard a blurb on the morning news this morning... Some woman was complaining about all the ‘gun related’ deaths of children and how the city gun laws need to be ‘rolled out’ to the country."

That statement induces vomiting. Play that woman's quote whenever you take poison

[PATRIOT1876]

“Calderon needs to be keel-hauled.”

Keel-haul him on a Russin ship and then send him out to sea like the other pirates

[Hoodat]

How does [Calderon] think he has the right, or wherewith all, to come here and tell us what we should be doing?

It wasn't a right, but a priviledge that was granted to him by our President. It is an affront to our nation, and one that was orchestrated by our own Commander-in-Chief. Can you say 'treason'?

[jim35]

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[guyshomenet]

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[backhoe]

Actually, it is best to have them get the current version (v5.1) directly from the source at www.GunFacts.info.

Thank you- I'll update the link.