Anyone catch his speech to Congress?
He’s asking the them to reinstate the “ban on assault weapons,” if only for the sake of Mexico. LOL.
I was disgusted by the amount of people that clapped when he said it.
We can’t possibly replace enough members of congress in November. Everybody that applauded in that building, especially when he denounced the new law, should be gone.
Hey Mexico, how about you consider stopping your own corrupt military from disserting and selling their issued M16A2s to drug cartels for pennies. Just a thought before you run your mouth off about our gun laws.
Most of the guns in Mexico could not even be purchased in the US.
See below a letter to the Editor in “The Economist”.
Apr 23rd 2009 | From The Economist print edition
Ammunition in the debate
SIR – Your article on the drug wars in Mexico claimed that half the guns seized by the Mexican police were “assault weapons” and that “nearly all” of those were bought in the United States (“Taking on the narcos, and their American guns”, April 4th). However, Mexico doesn’t trace all guns, and those traced are not picked at random. When Mexico seizes guns from criminals it sends to the United States those guns that it identifies as having come from the United States. This isn’t a hard task as such guns are marked with a serial number and “Made in the USA”. Only 17% of all guns were actually traced back to the United States.
Mexico is a virtual arms-bazaar, with AK47s from China, shoulder-fired rockets from Soviet-block manufacturers, and fragmentation grenades from South Korea. These weapons aren’t sold in the United States. Americans can buy civilian versions of AK47s only—semi-automatic rifles that operate like deer-hunting rifles, not the guns used by armies around the world. Mexican drug gangs don’t want the American “assault weapons” that “look like” military weapons; they want guns that are military weapons.
John Lott
Senior research scientist
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland
I saw his speech to Congress and was absolutely disgusted at the members of Congress who applauded that fuck. And Obama should be ashamed for agreeing with him, especially when the USAG and DHS Secretary haven’t even read the AZ immigration law. Its only ten pages long. Calderone needs to take his worthless ass back across the border and shut the hell up. :mad:
Put the military on the border. Treat them as invaders if they cross. Just that simple.
No matter how many times you repeat a lie, it is still a lie. 90% of trace requests came back as US guns, but only 20% of seized guns were submitted for tracing, which means that 18% of guns seized were traced to the US. Never answered is the question of how many of those guns were supplied by the US to the Mexican gov’t who then ‘lost track’ of them.
Oh because Mexico’s gun laws which virtually bar their citizens from owning guns have done so much to stop the violence which is mostly on their side? What makes him think virtually banning guns here would accomplish their laws have not? They are the ones running around down there guns you can’t even buy here in the 1st place.
Oh yeah the tracing. Gee they identify a US gun which is not hard to do, trace it, and then are “shocked” the majority in fact turn out to be from the US? How about all those FA AK’s, and M16’s in the exact configuration their MIL and LE get?
How about we’ll worry about our guns when Mexico starts worrying about the millions of their citizens living illegally in the US, and the tens of thousands of tons of narcotics they allow to go across our border? How about they take back control of their country before telling us what to do with ours?
Agree 100%
Does accountability and responsibility exist at all anymore? “It’s their fault, not mine!” What is he? A damn 9 year old girl?
How about you stop allowing the trash to infiltrate our country?
I feel like I’m getting more bitter by the day.
Is there a video anywhere of his speech?
I’d assume so since some of you have said you saw it, but I’m curious for those of us who missed it the first time.
I wonder how much US aid $$$ is going to Mexico for them to do these selective traces and have Calderon ask for a new AWB.
I’ll see if a transcript pops up on the 'Net and will post here.
Also, here’s a neat interview that Calderon did with WSJ.
Excerpt (when asked about the violence in Mexico):
“The main cause of this problem or the source of this problem is drug use in the United States. For me, it is like living in a building, right next to the largest consumer of drugs in the world; the problem is that everybody wants to sell drugs through my door or through my window.”
LINK: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703957904575252551548498376.html
F Mexico…
Cut them off from ALL US AID. Close the border with a HEAVY military presence, detain all those who attempt to cross indefinatly and see Mexico wither away into nothing…
Complete blockade…
We wont do it cause our Gov has no backbone… but how much fun woud it be if they did.
I actually have to kind of give that to him. If there were no demand in the US, then his producers would go tits up. What the US can do since they own a portion of this is legalize some drugs (peyote, weed) , make sentencing for the possession of others even harder (coke, crack, acid), and beef up the border patrol and border control devices (i.e. a huge whopping fence), which needs to be done anyway. But that does not absolve the little blame shifter. He still needs to clean up his own house and still needs to stomp out the corruption that makes his nation the shit hole that it is.
Obama needs to get out of bed with Calderon. His speech was garbage. I don’t want the mexican government dictating how our country needs to handle his people. Calderon is two faced because he says that we shouldn’t go after these people but he does the same thing to us and people from South America.
I agree with almost everything you wrote except for the statement that we “own” a portion of the cartel problem. Far as I know our soils here are capable of growing both pot and coca, yet we have the situation just a bit more under control. They are accountable for their own, just like we are.
Kind of like stating that we should blame international shipping companies for the dysfunction of the Somali pirates off the horn of Africa for blatantly enticing those dirt poor folks with such wealth filled boats offshore. I mean, what do you expect them to do in the face of such opportunity except exercise corruption and violence?
Not trying to be a dick, but for heaven’s sake we are not to blame for the fact that we have millions of little maniacs for neighbors.
97% of people are on the right side. Poll on Fox: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/05/20/mexican-president-invited-criticize-america/