Posted on 05/09/2014 9:43:14 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Mexico’s government plans on Saturday to begin demobilizing a vigilante movement of assault rifle-wielding ranchers and farmers that formed in the western state of Michoacan and succeeded in largely expelling the Knights Templar cartel when state and local authorities couldn’t.
The ceremony in the town of Tepalcatepec, where the movement began in February 2013, will involve the registration of thousands of guns by the federal government and an agreement that the so-called “self-defense” groups will either join a new official rural police force or return to their normal lives and acts as voluntary reserves when called on.
The government will go town by town to organize and recruit the new rural forces. …
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Leave it to Asspress where everything up is down, to write a headline sounding like gun registration and surrender is more autonomy for those involved.
Mexicans can already own guns.
Great news. Those Mexicans citizens have shown great courage the past few years standing up to and cleaning out some of their small rural towns from the cartel thugs. Bout time a government recognized their heroic efforts.
Now that the guns are registered, the federales can turn over the list to the cartels. They’ll know what to do.
That's not what they're doing. They're registering guns so they can tell the cartels where to find them.
These guys are manning road blocks keeping the cartels out of their towns. Very easy to find.
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