Obama Blames U.S. for Mexican Gun Violence

[PabloJ]

Selling out the country he represents. But then again, we don't even know where he was born.

POB was Honolulu Hawaii USA.

 

[PabloJ]

Legalizing drugs would just put more of a strain on welfare and federal money. I think we should forget Afghanistan and send our troops to Mexico to kick the Cartels' butts in a big way. Mexico could like it or not, or help with it or not. Who would trust their government anyway until the Cartels are neutralized enough to no longer have them (the government) in their pocket?

No. It would be far wiser to take over Canada. They have natural gas, oil, vast forests and no meaningful way of defending themselves.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

The president conceded his own country's role in the troubles that have plagued Mexico, acknowledging that most guns used to commit crime in the country come from north of the border.

Most of the criminals who do the crime come from Mexico, and the money that motivates the crime comes from north of the border.

As far the guns, they come from everywhere. As DHS and Strategic Forecasting independently pointed out, the 87% US origin guns were 3,480 guns out of 4,000 that showed up in the ATF dataset of US manufactures and imports, out of 7,200 guns that appeared to be US origin out of 30,000 guns seized in Mexican drug crimes over a period of five years. The 3,480 traced to US origins was 12% of the total of 30,000. In addition to the US, sources of drug cartel weapons include: Vietnam, Guatemala, Spain, Russia, North Korea, South Korea, Middle East, Africa, several countries of Central and South America. In short, anywhere gunrunning and drug smuggling overlap, or where bundles of US$100 bills are welcome. It is not necessarily the governments of these countries selling the weapons; illegal criminal gunrunning has existed since guns were invented.

According to El Universal newspaper, it was Mexican Presidente Filipe Calderon who ignited the current Mexican Drug War by sending in the Army in Dec 2006, shortly after he was elected. The murder rate began accelerating drasticly in 2008. In 2009, he appeared with Obama in Rose Garden press events and a joint session of Congress, blaming the accelerated death rate on sunset of the Assault Weapons Ban in 2004, and calling on a re-instatement of the AWB with applause from Obama.

The opposite party won Dec 2012 (6 year terms in Mexico), and the new Presidente, Enrique Pena Nieto, has vowed to demilitarize the drug war, and recruit 40,000 gendarmerie civilian police to enforce law in place of the Army. Obama tho is still doing the blame US guns somg and dance.

 

[Fremmer]

Obama sure does like to blame the US, doesn't he?

Well, it is our fault that Obama's gun control failed. Nobody wants it. And Obama didn't do an effective job leading. Again.

No new gun control!

 

[Texan Scott]

I`ve always believed you have to respect the office the President of the United States of America even if you cannot respect the man holding it,but is becoming increasingly difficult to respect that office when the man occupying it has no respect for the office of the president.

ThorinNNY, this is beautiful... and very sad... and true. Thank you for saying this in a way I could not.

 

[herrwalther]

Oh how right he is *cough Fast and Furious*

 

[tekarra]

The question is how many ordnance factories are operational in Mexico and to whom do they sell?

 

[Hacker15E]

The question is how many ordnance factories are operational in Mexico and to whom do they sell?

No, that's not really the question.

More important that that, what firearms are coming from all of the other ordnance factories and shady arms dealers from all over the world? With the money, power, and connections of the drug cartels, and the way they can pay off anyone they want in Mexico, they can buy any arms they want and have them shipped in illicitly anywhere on Mexico's 1,600 miles of coastline, or even through any one of the dozens of major shipping ports.

Although there's ample evidence that straw purchasing is taking place in the US, we also know that the cartels have numerous surface-to-air missiles, anti-aircraft guns, and all sorts of other heavy arms. It is ridiculous to think that the cartels are out buying heavy weapons off the black/gray market, but making straw purchases in the US for their small arms.

Occam's Razor tells us that just does not make sense, regardless of what the former Mexican President, Atty Gen Holder, and the POTUS want us to think.