elktrout
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Many gun owners warned what an Obama administration would do. And, various posts have appeared on this forum about it. Along those lines, you should get a copy of today's Wall Street Journal and read the article on page A8. It is a lengthy article, and I won't try to quote all of it here. But here is a synopsis of the article:
1. The U.S. has complained that Mexico does an insufficient job of curtailing the drugs flowing into the U.S. from Mexico.
2. Mexico, in turn, has blamed the U. S. for the escalating violence by the drug cartels there because the cartels use "intermediaries" across the border in Arizona to buy them guns and ammo.
3. These "intermediaries" are U.S. citizens with clean records who lie on the ATF purchase form and then sell the guns to the drug cartels and collect a $100 bonus for lying on the forms.
4. The state Attorney General in Arizona is prosecuting a gun shop owner who supposedly sold guns knowingly to intermediaries who in turn transferred them to Mexican drug cartel members.
5. Assault weapons and .50 caliber Barrett rifles are the weapons of choice, and the expiration of the Clinton assault weapons ban has resulted in a spike of these weapons in Mexico.
6. Attorney General Eric Holder announced last week that the Obama administration would push for the reinstitution of the assault weapons ban.
7. GET THIS ONE --- "No one knows how many weapons cross the border into Mexico each year. Unlike contraband drugs, which are consumed, contraband guns 'remain in circulation until they are captured'", says Terry Goddard, the Arizona AG. (Then, after this admission about the number of weapons crossing the border, the writer states in the second following paragraph) "U.S. officials acknowledge that U.S. gun laws are partly to blame. The 1994 ban on the sale of assault weapons like AK47s in the U.S. led to a decrease of such weapons south of the border. But the ban expired in 2004, and the numbers in Mexico spiked."
Isn't this absurd? Drugs are better than guns because you consume them. Well, pardon the @#$% out of me, if that isn't one of the stupidest things ever printed in a paper. The article also does not mention that any arrests were made of the intermediaries. It fails to mention that Mexico has failed to control the drug business for decades, not just now. But, here comes the Obama boys ready to blame the U.S. even though they admit they do not know the extent of the problem.
Of course, in the same edition of the WSJ, is an article that reports that Eric Holder announced that the administration "would keep a campaign promise by ending federal raids on medical marijuana dispensaries". The writer calls this "A Stimulus Plan for Mexican Gangsters". Yep, Holder is an upstanding guy.
Sorry for the length of this post, but I realize that the WSJ is not the most popular newpaper around. It is certainly clear that we are in for the biggest fight in the history of this nation to stop the gun grabbers. Our Founding Fathers would loathe the trends in our government. JOIN THE NRA OR RENEW IF YOU ALREADY BELONG.
1. The U.S. has complained that Mexico does an insufficient job of curtailing the drugs flowing into the U.S. from Mexico.
2. Mexico, in turn, has blamed the U. S. for the escalating violence by the drug cartels there because the cartels use "intermediaries" across the border in Arizona to buy them guns and ammo.
3. These "intermediaries" are U.S. citizens with clean records who lie on the ATF purchase form and then sell the guns to the drug cartels and collect a $100 bonus for lying on the forms.
4. The state Attorney General in Arizona is prosecuting a gun shop owner who supposedly sold guns knowingly to intermediaries who in turn transferred them to Mexican drug cartel members.
5. Assault weapons and .50 caliber Barrett rifles are the weapons of choice, and the expiration of the Clinton assault weapons ban has resulted in a spike of these weapons in Mexico.
6. Attorney General Eric Holder announced last week that the Obama administration would push for the reinstitution of the assault weapons ban.
7. GET THIS ONE --- "No one knows how many weapons cross the border into Mexico each year. Unlike contraband drugs, which are consumed, contraband guns 'remain in circulation until they are captured'", says Terry Goddard, the Arizona AG. (Then, after this admission about the number of weapons crossing the border, the writer states in the second following paragraph) "U.S. officials acknowledge that U.S. gun laws are partly to blame. The 1994 ban on the sale of assault weapons like AK47s in the U.S. led to a decrease of such weapons south of the border. But the ban expired in 2004, and the numbers in Mexico spiked."
Isn't this absurd? Drugs are better than guns because you consume them. Well, pardon the @#$% out of me, if that isn't one of the stupidest things ever printed in a paper. The article also does not mention that any arrests were made of the intermediaries. It fails to mention that Mexico has failed to control the drug business for decades, not just now. But, here comes the Obama boys ready to blame the U.S. even though they admit they do not know the extent of the problem.
Of course, in the same edition of the WSJ, is an article that reports that Eric Holder announced that the administration "would keep a campaign promise by ending federal raids on medical marijuana dispensaries". The writer calls this "A Stimulus Plan for Mexican Gangsters". Yep, Holder is an upstanding guy.
Sorry for the length of this post, but I realize that the WSJ is not the most popular newpaper around. It is certainly clear that we are in for the biggest fight in the history of this nation to stop the gun grabbers. Our Founding Fathers would loathe the trends in our government. JOIN THE NRA OR RENEW IF YOU ALREADY BELONG.