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   From: none@none.com   
      
   The Lone Weasel wrote:   
   > Obama could help stop Mexico's bloodshed   
   >   
   > BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER   
   >   
   > MEXICO CITY -- Here's an interesting detail about the much-publicized   
   > recent arrest of Mexico's top drug baron Edgar Valdez Villarreal, better   
   > known as ``La Barbie'' -- he was caught with a U.S.-made M-16   
   > semiautomatic rifle and other sophisticated arms that Mexican officials   
   > suspect were smuggled from the United States.   
   >   
   > In Mexico, U.S. arms smuggling is a big issue. President Felipe Calderón   
   > said during a visit to Washington in May that of all the guns and assault   
   > rifles seized in Mexico over the past three years, ``more than 80 percent   
   > of those we have been able to trace came from the United States.''   
   >   
   > Mexico's drug cartels have become increasingly well-equipped armies   
   > thanks to a flood of semi-automatic U.S. weapons, which have been easier   
   > to get since the U.S. government allowed a 10-year ban on sales of   
   > assault weapons to expire in 2004, Mexican officials say.   
   > ...   
      
   Who actually wants to stop the bloodbath?  If the drug-runners are   
   dying, then I say "open season".   
      
   A good drug runner is a dead drug runner.   
      
   Instead of reinstating the ban, we should be handing out   
   dangerous-looking assault weapons to border state citizens with the   
   charge to defend the country from drug-running invaders.   
      
   We aren't wards of the state -- if the government isn't doing its job,   
   then the citizens -- the TRUE lords of the country, will.   
      
   Get it yet?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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