Tuesday, February 2, 2010

The Juarez Shooting

CNN reports on one of the deadliest shootings in a city where they're commonplace.

As many as 15 gunmen stormed into a house party in Juarez, Mexico, in the early hours of Sunday morning and opened fire, killing at least 13 people and injuring 13 others in one of the deadliest attacks the city has seen this year.

Witnesses said the gunmen arrived in seven cars, closing down the streets and blocking exits. They then stormed into the party and began shooting as the group was watching a soccer game, adding that windshields and windows on the cars were darkly tinted.

More than 100 AK-47 bullet casings were found around the crime scene.

The AK-47 -- known in Mexico by its slang name of "cuerno de chivos," meaning "goat's horn," in reference to the gun's banana-shaped clip -- is the weapon of choice for drug cartels.

On Friday, at least seven bullet-riddled bodies were found scattered throughout northern Juarez, according to police.


I wonder how many of those AKs came from X-Caliber Guns. I'm sure it wasn't 90%, but I wonder just how many.

What's your opinion? Things seemed a little quieter in Mexico, then more than 20 dead in one weekend.

At least 160 people have been killed in Juarez since the start of the year, according to local reports.

That's a helluva start to the New Year, don't you think?

Please leave a comment.

10 comments:

  1. "At least 160 people have been killed in Juarez since the start of the year, according to local reports."

    I wonder how many people were shot in that same period in El Paso, Texas, less than a mile away.

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  2. If only I could not have bought a 101 year old Spanish rifle at a gunshow in Columbus, Ohio without a background check, none of this would have happened.

    --Not Jade Gold

    http://gunloon.com

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  3. Hmmmm, I wonder how many of those guns are missing from that country's military.

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  4. If the guns used were AK's then they are probably not missing from the mexican army's armories--if blog posts like this one:

    http://apocryph.org/2009/03/02/wsj-gets-in-on-us-guns-in-mexico-meme/

    are accurate.

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  5. AztecRed says:

    I wonder how many people were shot in that same period in El Paso, Texas, less than a mile away.

    I'm sure El Paso's violent crime rate is vastly higher, since Mexico has such strict laws compared to Texas. Oh, wait--that seems not to be the case.

    It's almost as if draconian gun laws don't save lives, after all--how could that be?

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  6. "Hmmmm, I wonder how many of those guns are missing from that country's military."

    Are the guns really missing from the military if part of the military is on cartel payrolls?

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  7. So, do we know that those guns were furnished by the mexican army; or is the suggestion that they might have been (even though it appears that the mexican army doesn't field the AK-47) all the "evidence" that is required?

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  8. I find it more than a bit odd that the same people who pounce on any "flaw" in the logic of gun control have very little to say about incindents like this one, except, of course for the "fact" that the guns mighta, coulda, prolly came from the mexican army.

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  9. We know that Mexican soldiers and police defect to the drug cartels for the better pay.

    And we know that some of the weapons captured in Mexico can be traced back to the US.

    We also know that US companies sell guns to the Mexican army and police.

    So it's no stretch of the imagination to conclude that when a soldier or police officer defects to a cartel, he takes his guns with him.

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  10. Well they're certainly NOT getting AK47's at U.S. gun shops or gun shows.

    What do you mean by "any "flaw" in the logic of gun control"

    The entire concept of "gun control is inherently flawed and illogical. When your basic premise is fatally flawed & illogical everything originating from that premise is likewise flawed.

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