President Felipe Calderon on Thursday unveiled a "No More Weapons!" billboard made with crushed firearms and placed near the U.S. border. He urged the United States to stop the flow of weapons into Mexico.
The billboard, which is in English and weighs 3 tons, was placed near an international bridge in Ciudad Juarez and can be seen from the United States.
Isn't it incredibly arrogant of the gun-rights folks to continue pretending all these people are wrong, that people like Henigan and even Calderon, president of Mexico have an agenda and are lying.Perhaps states like California, New York and Massachusetts should consider erecting similar billboards in the southern and western states that feed gun trafficking here at home.
Henigan sums it up like this:
What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.The solution to gun trafficking to Mexico is also the solution to gun trafficking within the U.S.: stronger federal gun laws. At the very least, high-firepower assault weapons and assault clips should be banned, background checks should be required for all gun sales, uniform limits should be placed on bulk sales of handguns, and greater authority should be given to federal law enforcement to shut down the dealers who aid and abet the traffickers.
Perhaps the US should erect a sign near the MX border, "No More Drugs", and make that out of crushed narco terrorists.
ReplyDeletePerhaps states like California, New York and Massachusetts should consider erecting similar billboards in the southern and western states that feed gun trafficking here at home.
Brilliant! Since laws do nothing to curb crime, surely a sign must have an impact. I'm sure we're all aware of how "no guns" signs on convenience stores stop all the armed robberies. This is such a brilliant idea, we should put up some kind of sign near the highways to curtail all those mass killings from vehicles. Hmmm, what should this sign say? Perhaps posting some type of limit on speed?
Isn't it incredibly arrogant of the gun-rights folks to continue pretending all these people are wrong, that people like Henigan and even Calderon, president of Mexico have an agenda and are lying.
It's incredibly naive of the anti-rights folks to think that they aren't?
At the very least, high-firepower assault weapons and assault clips should be banned
Even though the assault weapons ban did nothing to curtail crime and assault weapons are used in less than 2% of crime.
background checks should be required for all gun sales,
Background checks will only apply to law abiding citizens, since thugs get their guns from other thugs.
uniform limits should be placed on bulk sales of handguns,
Multiple sales of handguns are already reported to ATF.
and greater authority should be given to federal law enforcement
ATF already has the authority to pull FFLs and prosecute offenders. Maybe they need more authority so they can traffic more guns to more countries.
Yeah. Because a sign aimed at an El Paso shopping mall will make Mexico's cartels lay down their guns and quit killing each other.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant. No wonder Calderon has lost control of his cesspool. What a moronic loser.
"Brilliant! Since laws do nothing to curb crime,"
ReplyDeleteOh, boy, where to start? Are you completely full of shit as a result of being a teabagger or just 'cuz you're a gunzloon?
Laws do NOTHING to curb crime, really? Oh, yeah, I'm wanting to see the results of the peer reviewed criminologist's study that supports that laughable contention.
Do you, perhaps, know Greg Camp? You guyz would get along famously.
FatWhiteMan:
"Brilliant. No wonder Calderon has lost control of his cesspool. What a moronic loser."
First of all, you're assuming that Calderon or anyone else has had control of Mexico since around, well, 1492. Mexicon, Central and South America have a history of thuggishly oppressive governance since the days of Hernando Cortes. Enlightened, benign governance is most definitely the exception in way too many countries south of the U.S.
You're correct in saying that the sign prolly won't do a lot of good. Not as long as moneygrubbers like Wayne LaPierre and his cronies can hoodwink so many idiots into supporting their agenda.
1. Mexico was ruled by evil governments long before the Spaniards arrived. I'd hardly call the Aztecs an enlightened society. The conquistadors were a lateral move, not a step backward.
ReplyDelete2. I find it arrogant that Mexico whines about anything crossing its borders. When the Mexican government wants to stop the flow of illegal goods and services, it can plant the army at the northern border. Of course, we might ask them to shut off the firehose coming from their side, as opposed to the trickle from ours.
3. On that point, Calderon is running this line because he knows that America has an anti-gun president. The reality is that American guns in Mexico get fed into the black market through corrupt government agents, and the guns that are popular with Mexican gangs come from other countries.
Maybe we should send all the BATFE agents involved in F&F south to Mexico to face prosecution, because hey look another federal agent killed by a F&F gun....
ReplyDeleteThat along with the 3-400 Mexicans killed...... by F&F guns
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-57383089-10391695/second-gun-used-in-ice-agent-murder-linked-to-atf-undercover-operation/
How do you know there is a cover-up, Holder is not recusing himself and appointing a special prosecutor....
And... crickets from the mikeb side.
ReplyDeleteDon't make shit bit of difference not one damn bit about ideas. There will be only one way and that that is the Empire's way!
ReplyDeleteGuatemala's Prez mentioned legalization and bang just like that he's getting a visit and I say to get his ass chewed out by the worlds premier decider of who gets what. link
The funny thing I've noticed about the gun-rights folks is they thought Bush was OK but Obama and Calderon are idiots.
ReplyDeleteI didn't like Bush. In fact, I thought that he was an idiot who bungled just about everything that he tried.
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