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Oh, a few armed citizens is far more terrifying than regular army. That's been proven time and again throughout history, and in particular throughout Mexican history.
Regular army you can see coming, and they make such nice targets--assuming they can't be bribed first. Regular folk are everywhere and blend in so well they are harder to pick off; additionally, since they presumably don't like the cartels, the efficacy of bribery is greatly diminished.
Are you suggesting that if the general populace were armed some how the problem of gun violence would be cured? How would this work? Would the general pop form vigilante gangs?
I'm suggesting a few law abiding Mexicans be allowed to shoot back.Ah so you suggesting more or less a revolution
When this originally came up, the story contained information that the guns were being illegally sold to straw purchasers by dealers who were in the employment of the drug cartels.lul I know this, it seems others aren't very educated in the matter as they continue to prove everytime they post about us citizens buying select fire weapons and sending them to mexico. :roll:
Well since the cartels are already not scared of the Mexican authorities I doubt a few armed citizens will have an impact.
In regards to Winston, and yourself.
Could you please enlighten me as to where I can buy LEGAL FULL AUTO or SELECT FIRE weapons in this country?
Please, I've got my savings account waiting.. I'll buy up a bunch of them right now. :roll:
A paid soldier can be bought. And that's a big problem in Mexico. Whereas a man defending his home and family is far more of a threat.
When this originally came up, the story contained information that the guns were being illegally sold to straw purchasers by dealers who were in the employment of the drug cartels.
I notice that information is missing here. I wonder why.
I also wonder how a responsible and porfessional press corps could omit such a thing.
As I said -- all of this just shows how desperate the anti-gun side is to ban 'assault weapons', and to what lengths they will go do justify such a thing.
I was actually saying that it doesn't matter where they are getting the guns from. Here, Columbia, Russia, doesn't make a difference. The only thing that matters is that they are getting the weapons DESPITE the strict gun control laws.
lul I know this, it seems others aren't very educated in the matter as they continue to prove everytime they post about us citizens buying select fire weapons and sending them to mexico. :roll:
So just give the guy a couple of bucks. Or send the paid soldiers in.
Legal or illegal I think they would get them.
A better question:Exactly, so why deprive law-abiding citizens the chance to have guns to defend themselves?
I think you missed my point. Teh guy in the house can't be bought and since he's fighting for his family, he'll be a much fiercer fighter.
Exactly, so why deprive law-abiding citizens the chance to have guns to defend themselves?
I really do not think it is that much of a threat to a ruthless cold blooded professional cartel soldier.
You've never seen The Three Amigos then. El Guapo was scared.
I really do not think it is that much of a threat to a ruthless cold blooded professional cartel soldier.
Has the media shown these statements to be true?Surely if they were unbiased as they claimed they were they would have at least done a story on which of these stores are selling "illegal" weapons to non citizens.It seems that by helping to spread the lie they themselves are also lying.Uhmm they were reporting what President Felipe Calderon of Mexico and the U.S. State Department said:
How does reporting what others said make the media liars?
So what. Are people selling guns illegally? (US LAW) if so prosecute them.
But to suggest we need to restrict the constitutional rights of Americans because of thier problem is asinine.
How does reporting what others said make the media liars?
It would at least mean they'd have some hope of fighting back. All the ban does is deprive the law-abiding from any kind of defence. This is an age old problem.Are you suggesting that if the general populace were armed some how the problem of gun violence would be cured? How would this work? Would the general pop form vigilante gangs?
They're either liars, amateurs, or lazy. You choose.
Whenever I see a news article describing so-called assault weapons as "high powered", it's an instant clue that the writer knows absolutely nothing about guns.
Military rifles are not high powered. Most are not even suitable for deer hunting because the rounds they fire are not big or powerful enough to make a clean kill. The only thing that makes these guns "powerful" is that magazines are available to enable them to shoot a lot of rounds before reloading is required.
Given the choice, I'd much rather be shot by an AK-47 than a 7mm mag deer rifle.
Just curious but do you have any evidence to the contrary of what was reported?
What's true, an ATF spokeswoman told FOXNews.com, in a clarification of the statistic used by her own agency's assistant director, "is that over 90 percent of the traced firearms originate from the U.S."
But a large percentage of the guns recovered in Mexico do not get sent back to the U.S. for tracing, because it is obvious from their markings that they do not come from the U.S.
"Not every weapon seized in Mexico has a serial number on it that would make it traceable, and the U.S. effort to trace weapons really only extends to weapons that have been in the U.S. market," Matt Allen, special agent of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), told FOX News.
In 2007-2008, according to ATF Special Agent William Newell, Mexico submitted 11,000 guns to the ATF for tracing. Close to 6,000 were successfully traced -- and of those, 90 percent -- 5,114 to be exact, according to testimony in Congress by William Hoover -- were found to have come from the U.S.
But in those same two years, according to the Mexican government, 29,000 guns were recovered at crime scenes.
In other words, 68 percent of the guns that were recovered were never submitted for tracing. And when you weed out the roughly 6,000 guns that could not be traced from the remaining 32 percent, it means 83 percent of the guns found at crime scenes in Mexico could not be traced to the U.S.
Why yes, I do...
The Myth of 90 Percent: Only a Small Fraction of Guns in Mexico Come From U.S. - Presidential Politics | Political News - FOXNews.com
Why do you suppose the Clinton State Department misrepresented that 90% figure?
Hmm.lol, facts are inconvenient.
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