Guns into Mexico

[spartan933]

Here we go ladies and germs. I suspect that by Thursday, we will be hearing about how we need to re-institute the AWB. Naturally, the President of Mexico will dictate to Obama how the country should be run.

Is the Flow of U.S. Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels Increasing Under Obama? - Declassified Blog - Newsweek.com

We need to make sure that Pro 2A officials get elected in November.

 

[JDonhardt]

So let me get this straight...Mexico is upset about something being illegally transported into their country.

Ok.

 

[Shadowbeach]

.

 

[onviousluu]

Ending the drug war would ruin the cartels thus ending any flow of guns to Mexico.

 

[Scutter01]

I'll trade 'em. They take back their illegals and we'll take back ours.

 

[JDonhardt]

I see what you did there. The irony is breathtaking, isn't it?

I say we make 'em a deal...

This quote comes very early in the article:

"Mexican President Felipe Calderón—due to meet with President Obama in Washington on Wednesday – to press his case that the U.S. government is failing to crack down on a massive flow of illegal weapons into Mexico."

All I can do is

 

[spartan933]

My fiance', who holds dual citizenship, said, "Well, Mexico is responsible for all the drugs in this country. Let's call it even." Of course, that is semi-acknowledging that the guns may have come from this country. But, her heart is in the right place.

Interesting how their former SpecOps people started this camp. I think that says something about the corruption in Mexico, and I love Mexico. But, they have some serious problems down there.

I love how Mexico wants to tell us how to run things up here, and at the same time ask for Foreign Aid. Which, I don't have a problem with foreign aid, it is of strategic and political importance, but, beggars cannot be choosers.

 

[indykid]

Mexico is getting so bad that our church mission group was told to stay home this summer as it is too dangerous there.

So let me get this straight, are we trading arms for people? We send them illegal firearms and they send us illegal people?

Dear President of Mexico: Please tell our president that he needs to completely secure and shut down our boarder with your country to prevent illegal traffic in both directions! Thank you.

 

[Thumper]

Mexico is getting so bad that our church mission group was told to stay home this summer as it is too dangerous there.

So let me get this straight, are we trading arms for people? We send them illegal firearms and they send us illegal people?

Dear President of Mexico: Please tell our president that he needs to completely secure and shut down our boarder with your country to prevent illegal traffic in both directions! Thank you.

Well said.If they secure the border properly the problem will be solved.

 

[ISP 5353]

Secure our border!

 

[boozoo]

Exactly. It just shows you what the true aim is when their solution to everything is to re-institute the assault weapons ban. If it was really about security and weapons flow, they could just as easily use that as justification to shut down the border, but instead the solution is always to disarm Americans and harass gun shops out of business. For that matter, I noticed they even hinted at private sales being a problem, too. They basically followed the Brady campaign right down the bullet list (pun only sort of intended).

 

[Chance]

Can't be true...

This just can't be true. I have traveled to Juarez 6 times in the last three years for work. Always parking on the US side and walking across the bridge to enter (reverse immigrant). There is a HUGE sign posted above the roadway to the bridge and it clearly says:

GUNS AND AMMUNITION ILLEGAL IN MEXICO
PENALTY = PRISON

With a law this clear how can there be any problems?????

 

[Thumper]

The illegal drugs in America has made my decision.I keep hearing about legalizing pot.I disagree when is this gonna stop.If people in america would say no to illegal drugs the market would dry up.I like the way VIENNA deals with drug dealers.EXECUTION Thank you that is what we need.

 

[ak keep the second]

Mini guns every 500 yards with the order of shoot to kill sounds like good border patrol to me, that would make people think twice before running across the boarder!

 

[irishfan]

Mini guns every 500 yards with the order of shoot to kill sounds like good border patrol to me, that would make people think twice before running across the boarder!

Do you know how much that would cost???? Seriously, be fiscally responsible here.

I say 10,000 bouncing bettys

 

[SedahDrol]

The best way to stop the gun flow to Mexico is for the US to stop selling the Mexican government guns. There is far too much corruption for them to have our weaponry. If the cartels are getting American guns they are getting them from the Mexican military and police.

 

[Leadeye]

Worked over there in various maquila towns for years, always glad to be home after a trip. Spending time in those corrupt third world pest holes makes you really appreciate the USA.

 

[paddling_man]

This just can't be true. I have traveled to Juarez 6 times in the last three years for work. Always parking on the US side and walking across the bridge to enter (reverse immigrant). There is a HUGE sign posted above the roadway to the bridge and it clearly says:

GUNS AND AMMUNITION ILLEGAL IN MEXICO
PENALTY = PRISON

With a law this clear how can there be any problems?????

And when you walked across the footbridge into Mexico, how closely were you checked? It was 4-5 years ago for me, but I clearly remember just waving to a guy in a toll-booth like shack.

Coming back into the US? I thought they were going to do a cavity search. **






**Not implying that I want to be cavity searched. Nope. Just that it was nice... er, prudent... to see that the lax security was only on one side of the border.

 

[spartan933]

This just can't be true. I have traveled to Juarez 6 times in the last three years for work. Always parking on the US side and walking across the bridge to enter (reverse immigrant). There is a HUGE sign posted above the roadway to the bridge and it clearly says:

GUNS AND AMMUNITION ILLEGAL IN MEXICO
PENALTY = PRISON

With a law this clear how can there be any problems?????

Yep, that's what used to happen to me. I drove down to Michoacan for a semester abroad a couple years ago, and was waved right through until I got to the checkpoint between Monterrey and Laredo. I got the red light, and they only sifted through my car really quick. I think they were nice because the girls working there wanted to marry me.

But, over Christmas, I got checked on the US side and the Mexican side on the way down. You may remember that a year and a half ago, all of the Mexican customs agents were fired and replaced with newly US trained, college educated guys who passed background checks, etc. In theory, it is supposed to cut down on the trafficking. I did notice they were a little more professional, but money and power still corrupts and it won't be the end of that in that country until they take out the narcos.

And yeah, on the US side, they checked me on the way down with a dog and I think an x-ray device for guns. I never got out of the car. But, on the way back, US Customs ripped my car apart, took out the door panels, etc. They couldn't believe I drove alone through Mexico. Took them an hour. But, it is always a great feeling to step onto American soil.

 

[femurphy77]

Slightly thread-jacking but it was mentioned a few posts back; Legalize Marijauna! Problem solved, both governments tax the hell out of it, everyone is happy! Simple solution that I have put no thought into but did anyone read the article last week about the lost drug war? $40 Billion Dollars, thousands of lives, smuggling operations more hi-tech than ever and the drug problem has only gotten worse! I have never partook and it doesn't bother me if you do or don't but I can't see how this is any different than prohibition. Legalize it and we would probably see a huge drop in related crimes on both side of the border. Yeah I know it leads to hard drugs etc. Provide a link for the studies. (This oughta get something stirred up).

Back to our regularly scheduled post.