Mexico violence - new look @ US gun laws
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Mexico violence - new look @ US gun laws
| Thu, 03-12-2009 - 1:10pm |
Mexico violence prompts new look at US gun laws
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Diaz also says a 1930s gun law can be used to regulate imports of .50-caliber rifles also used by the cartels. Federal officials say about 90 percent of guns seized in Mexican organized crimes came from the U.S.
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>"Expert Tom Diaz says that imports of certain semiautomatic rifles were regulated under the first Bush and Clinton administrations. But he told a House panel Wednesday the import rules were relaxed under the most recent Bush administration."<
That's pretty telling.
Mexico proves gun control doesn't work. Mexico has some of the tightest gun control laws on the planet. If guns weren't imported from the U.S. they'd come from elsewhere.
When guns are illegal, only criminals will have them.
Diaz is wrong.
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Existing laws already prohibit selling guns to Mexican drug gangs. Why do we need new laws for the criminals (who primarily get their guns on the black market, fwiw) to ignore? Thas like closing libraries and newspapers because Mexicans are looking at child porn ilegally produced in the US.
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I just found it interesting that 90% of the guns came from the U.S.
When you dig a little deeper and see what guns they're getting from the US and who in the US they are getting them from, you quickly realize that they are getting them on the black market in the US - i.e. a section of the market unconcerned with
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martinisnsushi - the two most important food groups!
Actually, you can buy anything you need to turn a semi-automatic weapon into a fully automatic weapon at any gun show, shop, online, etc.
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Sorry Hugs, but you're mistaken on this particular aspect of the issue.
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