Gun Control at Work
(h/t ColtsFan) Works just like you'd expect:
- As part of Joint Operation Culiacán-Navolato, the Mexican military, searching an uninhabited house in Culiacán, discovered and seized an arsenal consisting of 8 rifles, 18 pistols, 21 ammo clips for pistols, 9 ammo clips for AK-47s, R-15s and M-16s as well as drum cartridge loaders and 1,283 cartridges of different calibers. Five of the pistols were "encrusted" with precious stones and gold. Also seized were 150 parcels of dollar bills of different denominations. The money has not yet been counted, but estimated in the thousands of dollars.
Update on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 01:04PM by
PRCalDude
PRCalDude
The liberals like to say that the Mexican gangs have guns just because they're on the border with the US and can buy them there. What about this:
These sources carried a curious report about a couple of sacks being found dumped out on the street in an industrial area of Callao, the seaport of Lima. The contents : one hundred fourteen 60 mm. mortar shells, of Russian manufacture, some of them in perfect condition. No one can figure out how or why they ended up there. The finder called police; the police called the army; the army took them away. Rechecking the story later, the portion about Russian manufacture had been deleted, but was in at least one source originally. Some reports called them "war grenades" and added a comment by a military person in Peru stating that the shells have a destructive radius of 40 meters.
Even an ocean of separation did nothing from preventing criminals from owning worse than just "guns."
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If all you want to do is kill people, five gallons of gas properly applied and placed is cheap and legal (except the killing part.)
Guns are only tools in the hands of the user. The first homicide this year in a nearby county was done w/a baseball bat.
It's amazing how there are plenty of guns to be found in Mexico, and almost all in the hands of the criminals or police (same thing). The cartels are "impressively armed" as the 2007 US travel advisory to Mexico states. There's no lack of violent crime either. My wife's friend is from Mexico City, and when my wife told her that I owned guns, she replied, "Shooting is fun!" I asked her when she shot. "Oh, we owned guns when we lived in Mexico. There were a lot of kidnappings. We had one for home and one for the car." I guess people who want to defend themselves have two choices in such a situation: a) don't or b) break the law. No one has much respect for law down there b/c there's no reason to respect it.
As we've talked before. More often than not the safest communities in our country those where just about everyone owns some type of firearms, and generally also know how to use them.
The highest crime rates, ironically, are in communities where legal gun ownership is are banned and self-defense is for the most part discouraged.
Or this:
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/03/video-the-mexican-gun-canard/