Posted on 03/06/2012 10:31:14 AM PST by GregNH
During his meeting with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in Mexico City, President Felipe Calderon said the only way to win his country's war with the drug cartels is to jointly tackle organized crime including arms trafficking along the border as well as ceasing the rampant cross-border money laundering, according to a press statement.
The Mexican government has waged a war to eradicate organized crime gangs that has killed more than 47,700 victims over the past five years, according to figures released earlier this year by the Attorney General's Office.
Calderon claimed -- and Biden on behalf of the Obama administration agreed -- that the drug cartels have challenged the military and police with advanced weapons, most of which are trafficked illegally from the United States.
But Thomas McMahon, a former police commander and proponent of Second Amendment rights, tells the Examiner that these are no conclusive studies to support the claims of Calderon, Biden, Obama, or Attorney General Eric Holder.
"Trying to prove the canard of rampant gun-smuggling is what cost so many lives due to the Operation Fast and Furious debacle. That entire operation was politically-motivated and more about gun control in the U.S. than solving drug and gang problems in Mexico," said McMahon, now a private security executive.
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So, Felipe, Why don’t you just take your army’s guns and kill all of the drug dealers. That would stop the need for guns crossing the border.
Then I guess our government should not be giving them out down there. Someone ask our AG just why he did that please...
Hey Calderon and Biden, talk to Obama and Holder.
That’s where your problem lies.
As an aside, stop sending illegals northward and stop sending drugs north, once that is done then we can talk.
So Calderon sends millions of Mexicans North to camp in the USA while collecting billions in drug money, and now demands that we start disarming Americans by restricting the supply of weapons.
Occupy, disarm, rule?
Guess his frikkin’ sign ain’t working...ping.
Calderon and Biden: Smuggled Mexican Tequila fuels USA drunk driver victim violence, drunken crime sprees, escalating divorce rate in Arizona.
So now we have Mexico telling US what WE need to do about THEIR problems?
Of course our pResident will bow to them and try DESPERATELY to have guns banned in the U.S.
For our safety of course!
Hey Felipe, if YOUR people can manage to get tons of coke over YOUR southern border, there’s no point in b****ing about guns.
Oh, I see. So now we’re going to fight the war on drugs by enforcing more rigid gun control in the U.S., not by enforcing the border. Is their no end to Democrats’ pathetic little games to sneak fascism upon us right under our noses?
LOL
HEY IT IS THE AMERICAN GOVT RUNNING GUNS TO YOUR COUNTRY TAKE IT UP WITH OBAMA AND THE CRAP WE CALL THE MSM.
WTH.
this pisses me off the left used him to do more gun laws but got caught in their gun running, the MSM covers for them, Holder keeps his job the GOP for the most past shut up YET AGAIN and now we have him harping on about this crap.
Yes American guns killed your people as well as ours but it was obama and Holder who gave the guns to drug lords so sue them
Their crying because Fast and Furious did not continue....
Should be:
U.S. Government fuels Mexican Violence and Crime
So the Mexican military and police are armed with something less "advanced" than what Americans can legally buy??
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