Posted on 07/22/2012 7:43:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Coming from the president of a country that's seen at least 55,000 drug-and-gang-related deaths during his tenure, the blithe audacity is enough to make your head spin.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon condemned U.S. gun laws as "mistaken" and urged Washington to review them after a shooter killed 12 people and injured more than 50 others at a U.S. movie theater on Friday.
But Mexico's president, who has repeatedly called on Washington to tighten gun controls to stop weapons flowing from the United States into the hands of Mexican drug cartels, said U.S. weapons policy needed a rethink after the killings.
"Because of the Aurora, Colorado tragedy, the American Congress must review its mistaken legislation on guns. It's doing damage to us all," Calderon said.
Calderon has been a constant critic of the United States’ gun laws, and is constantly blaming us for systemic drug violence in Mexico, but it seems to me that the Mexican president consistently demonstrates an attitude toward the United States that is nothing short of insolent.
Where does he get off? For years, Calderon’s been backhandedly criticizing us for our attempts to stop illegal immigration and secure our border — he wants a porous border so that people can move north and send U.S. dollars south, but if any weapons make it across this porous border into the hands of Mexican drug cartels, its the fault of the Second Amendment? He effectively denies law-abiding Mexican citizens the right to carry arms, but somehow the country is flooded with criminals running amok with them? He wants to sue American gun manufacturers, but is oddly quiet when the Obama administration willfully puts weapons in the hands of Mexican cartels?
No, just no. His own leadership and policies have consistently failed to address the issue, and now we’re reduced to hearing sneering little remarks about how the world’s problems are somehow our fault.
Senor Calderon: Go stuff a burrito up your frijole....
Ooooh, Let’s adopt the Mexican Gun laws won’t we?
Uh no.
The terrible irony is that 12 vicious deaths per DAY is an almost violence free day under Presidente Culo-lone
The only review of gun laws needed concern those regarding the so- called attorney general and the usurper in the white hut running guns to mexico, which are then used to kill US agents. If congress weren’t invertebrates, we’d be having trials right now!
US to Mexican President: You know, you really should STFU.
Muck Fexico
Spare me. We’ve been “reviewing” our gun laws for DECADES and keep coming to the SAME CONCLUSION - which is that an armed populace is a safe populace - so we keep loosening our laws.
Mexico does not have much to teach us - one person that I know well had a family (that he knew well) from down there invade his home in Houston - not that he minded at all, since the father of that family had just been assassinated by a drug gang (he simply made too much money, legally, and wouldn’t ‘share’ it with them). It was pretty rough for him to explain to the young kids what just happened to their dad.
Mexico is the VERY LAST country to be giving us lessons on how to prevent gun violence.
Massacres worse than the Aurora massacre takes place in the northern part of Mexico everyday.
If I were him, I’d be pissed too. The leader of the largest neighbor and his chief law enforcement officer allowed a few thousand guns into his country, without his knowledge, which led to the deaths of over 300 and counting. But he’s mixed up as to what the problem is. It’s not a gun problem, it’s a competence problem. His country has been used by a competing party in the US to hurt the other. The blood of his people is being used as a tool to restrict the rights of Americans because the current leader believes the greatest political document is fundamentally skewed against the power of the state.
I wish Senor Wences would speak out on behalf of his people, instead of acting like a leftist sock puppet.
After reviewing our gun laws, the only logical conclusion is to declare war on Mexico, with the intent of establishing a non-corrupt republic there, which they have signally failed to do.
“Gun free” zones are actually public free fire zones for mass murderers. If not, please give me one example of a mass shooting in the last 20 years that did NOT occur in a “gun free” zone.
“Because of the Aurora, Colorado tragedy, the American Congress must review its mistaken legislation on guns. It’s doing damage to us all,” Calderon said.”
Hey idiot, why don’t you ask us to review OUR DRUG LAWS, the lack of enforcement of which sends 80 BILLION a year into the cartel’s hands.
Oh that’s right, the people that own you (The Big Drug Cartels), wouldn’t like that. But they have ordered you to try to shut off the guns to the start-up cartels. And like the obedient sock puppet you are, you are attempting to do that.
Santa Anna had problems with Sam Houston’s men here in Texas having guns, too didn’t he, Felipe?
Right, that’s why we should probably legislate to eliminate as many of them as we can.
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Dear Head Beaner Felipe Calderon,
Get stuffed. Do not presume to lecture the United States until you take care of you own cartel violence, corruption and graft.
Dear Head Beaner Felipe Calderon,
Get stuffed. Do not presume to lecture the United States until you take care of you own cartel violence, corruption and graft.
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