Mexican President Calderon Calls for Gun Control – American’s Call for Border Control
May 23rd, 2010 |
With the disgraceful show that Obama let Mexican President Felipe Calderon put on while in Washington, Calderon threw Obama a bone with his anti-gun rhetoric calling for the United States to pass another so called assault weapons ban, the failed Clinton era gun control scheme. Calderon called on congress to reinstate the assault weapons ban because he claims it would stem the flow of weapons into Mexico, the only problem with this argument is that it has been proven several times now that the vast majority of weapons being used by the drug cartels are coming either through Central/South America or are being stolen or purchased from the Mexican military itself. Mexican President Calderon comes to America calling for gun control, while American’s call for border control.
Mexico loves to show pictures of confiscated weapons, belt fed .50 caliber machine guns, grenade launchers, AK-47’s and so on. They have the media fawning over showing pictures of American made M-16’s made by Colt. Fine, the pictures show weapons, but so what? Fully automatic weapons are not being sold in the United States, belt fed machine guns don’t come from Walmart. The AK-47’s are Chinese and Russian made, Chinese AK-47’s have not been sold or brought into the US for twenty years. The Russian rifles have been altered to make automatic fire all but impossible, and the numbers being imported into the US simply don’t support the reality on the ground in Mexico. It is a well documented fact that Mexican government at all levels have sold or had otherwise given weapons to the drug cartels. This only covers the ones not taken by force or simply lost, which is a huge total, Mexico won’t even release the numbers the list is so bad.
Speaking of lists, last year when Eric Holder came out and said he would like to reinstate the Clinton era assault weapons ban, in his making the case for doing that he used numbers that were false, what a surprise. The original story was how that 80 percent plus of the weapons being recovered by Mexican authorities were coming from the United States and that the weapons were being tracked here. Not really the truth. The facts and figures got distorted a little, the percentage they were talking about is what the Mexican government was asking ATF to track by serial numbers. The 80 percent was the figure that showed that of the weapons submitted for tracking, 80 percent came from America. The key is of those submitted for tracking. When taken in the whole, the percentage of weapons coming from America being recovered by Mexican authorities is about 17 percent as best anyone can tell. A far cry from 80.
Using distortions is nothing new for the left, using distortions or flat out lies is a staple for the gun control crowd and has been for two decades. The fact that Mexico is spinning out of control in a drug war, has nothing to do with the Second Amendment in the United States. It is obvious that Mexican President Felipe Calderon can not get control of his own country and attempting to blame someone else for his nations problems is all this is. Calderon wants all the illegals to keep coming to the US, Calderon wants open borders, Calderon wants American’s disarmed. In the end what we have here is Obama letting Calderon come to Washington and trash America at every opportunity. Many along the border don’ t think they are armed well enough to deal with the illegals pouring into the United States. Maybe if Mexico had their version of the Second Amendment the citizens would not be terrified to go to work or take their children to school or go to church for fear the drug cartels will kill them. The Mexican population understands that they can’t depend on the government for help, they live it every day.
The leftist globalist dream of a world socialist utopia runs directly into one big problem, a well armed and determined American population. After all, isn’t that what the founding fathers created the Second Amendment for in the first place?
