Posted on 02/21/2011 4:43:07 PM PST by epow
NOT what Obama and his Democrat gungrabber buddies want Americans to know.
BTTT
So what is this 500 wordfest saying exactly, as in is there a point here in my lifetime????
Darned tootin. Mexican drug cartels have bought up all the M60’s, grenade launchers and TOW missiles. You can’t find a bargain anymore at a gun show.
Ooooops. So much for that justification.
Thank you. I was needing a grin. You provided it!!
Spent to much time on Al Jezeera today. %;)
Its a big to-do about nothing.
They quote State Department memos as saying they are “aware” that the Pentagon is “aware” that everyone is “aware” that drug gangs are using old US military weapons (and Korean, and anything else) that they bought from old war zones in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, where ever, then refurbished in shops set up in Oaxaca. They try to imply that the Pentagon is selling weapons to the gangs but in the end they are talking about twenty-five or thirty year old weapons from the wars of yesteryear, bought from Central America. Or bought from Central American militaries. Or the Mexican military, but they don’t go there.
Actually, I believe a lot of Zeta and mafia weaponry comes straight from the Mexican military, which they don’t talk about, so again, the article is about half bogus. And a lot of the drug gangs like to use AK-47s too, also widely available, but the article doesn’t go into that.
In any event, they are using machine guns, hand grenades, and rocket launchers that they did not buy at Walmart in Tucson.
They are saying that many military grade weapons sold to Central American states during the 80’s and 90’s have been sold to Narco traffickers, most likely by corrupt police and military members of said nations. There are also commercial sales from the U.S. to “peoples” in the region.
Succinct. Thanks. Why in HAIL can’t the writer do that?
Guns “FINDING THEIR WAY” to Mexico? What utter rubbish. They walk there, maybe take a bus? The guns show a plane ticket, sit on a plane, and then fly to Mexico?
Mexican people take the guns into Mexico, or Mexican military people SELL these guns to narcos.
To prevent Mexican people from doing this, we would have to be their PARENTS.
And we’re not their parents.
I know! Websites could easily publish a re-cap, which is to-the-point, instead of going on and on.
Too bad those engaging in said “Commercial sales” can’t consider native-born Californians “peoples” in the region; they’d have a burgeoning market.
Everyone gets to play but us legitimate, law-abiding folks, ‘cuz the moment we get geared up to a level equal to the growing threat, we be on the wrong end of a Federal firearms rap.
Just f’n damnable.
This has been going on for 30 years...no surprise, legalize marijuana, and make hard drugs available with mandatory treatment programs..there is no other solution to the narco crises..
Just because a bunch of Europeans and Africans showed up is no reason for that to stop.
Legalize all drugs and make qualifiers for any government assistance of any type based on clean monthly drug screens.
Yep, Many of our founding Fathers smoked POT, its a crazy war we have against our own people..there are better ways to address the morality or usefullness of taking substances..
Still, alcohol, which provided a relatively sterile drinking source, was a superior vehicle. That’s why the Central American and Venezuelan Indians ARE NOT IN CHARGE ANYMORE.
Because the writter is a Urinalist ... a presstitute.
Making it a capital crime would work.
yep..
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