Mexico: U.S. Must Stop Gun Trade At Border

Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (aka "CBS News") ^ | Feb. 28, 2009 | (CBS/AP)

[holymoly]

"...we've seized in this two years more than 25,000 weapons and guns, and more than 90 percent of them came from United States, and I'm talking from missiles launchers to machine guns and grenades."

I don't know what's worse.

This bold-faced lie, or the unmitigated gall of the vile, despicable, reprehensible, loathsome leftwing propagandists at CBS, who publish this outrageous, preposterous claim as fact.

[Paladin2]

Uh, Mexico must enforce its northern border.

[coloradan]

I second the motion. Mexico, you are responsible for what enters your country.

[BipolarBob]

So are they saying “Build the wall, darn it!!!”?

[kc8ukw]

It is kind of odd isn’t it. They want us to stop guns from flowing into their country, while they simultaneously help illegals flow into ours.

[coloradan]

and are limited to guns with a calibre no higher than the standard .38-calibre

I'll take a .375 H&H magnum, please.

[Not A Snowbird]

Seriously. What kind of inbound inspection process do they have that enables all these weapons to get past them?

Seems to me it’s there fault for having lax enforcement.

[Jet Jaguar]

Mexico should enforce its’ northern border from drugs, immigrants and terrorists.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

We need to stop the flow of guns and weapons towards Mexico," President Calderon told AP

Maybe President Calderon could build a wall.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Please let me know where one can buy machine guns, missile launchers, etc in the USA without special licensing.

[avacado]

President Felipe Calderon and his top prosecutor told The Associated Press on Thursday that Mexican police and soldiers are dangerously outgunned because U.S. authorities are failing to stop the smuggling of high-powered weapons into Mexico.

How come Mexico isn't responsible for stopping the smuggling INTO Mexico?

[sourcery]

Outrageous nonsense. It’s far easier to get guns in the US, and use them here, than to transport them back to Mexico. So why don’t we have the same problems here? And drugs are just as prohibited here as they are there. So the problem is undeniably and unarguably specific to Mexico, beyond any possibility of doubt.

[Trinity5]

"Mexican cartels often pay U.S. citizens to purchase assault rifles or other guns at gun shops, then sell them to a cartel representative at a U.S. gun show, where registration rules are much less stringent and the gun sale can't be easily traced.

Yep, because doing it in a back alley or the middle of the desert is much harder. F'n morons.

[Roger_Wildcat]

I know! Let’s do the opposite of what Mexico says.

[umgud]

"We need to stop the flow of guns and weapons towards Mexico," President Calderon told AP.

This is already against the law. What we need is border control and more enforcement. What we'll get instead, will be more laws infringing on American's RKBA.

[HiJinx]

Ping!

[VeniVidiVici]

Please let me know where one can buy machine guns, missile launchers, etc in the USA without special licensing.

Obviously a special Mexican program that we're not entitled to participate in.

Maybe we can trade them 100 illegals for each evil, black rifle?

[Paladin2]

"What kind of inbound inspection process do they have"

My only experience was going into Mexico on foot south of Yuma in the 70's. No pedestrian was going through the car inspection gate, so we didn't either. No problem, though we did stop in with the US INS on the way back (one of the people in our group was a legalized immigrant from Palestine.)

[sourcery]

Actually, the US does bear some of the blame. Drug prohibition motivates organized crime, the same as alcohold prohibition did. If drugs weren’t prohitited in the US, the business case for the Mexican gangs would be essentially eliminated. But the Mexican authorities won’t talk about that, since they make their living from it (e.g., bribes.)

[43north]

[Please let me know where one can buy machine guns, missile launchers, etc in the USA without special licensing.]

The Wal-Mart in ElPaso has a special on RPG’s this weekend... I swear to God they do!