XPost: talk.politics.guns   
   From: none@none.com   
      
   The Lone Weasel wrote:   
   > On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:26:44 -0400, Zombywoof wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >> And if it was an M-16 then it came from the Drug-Runners normal weapons   
   >> supplier, the Mexican Army.   
   >   
   > Is that what the NRA handout told you, Zombywussy?  Here's the documented   
   > facts:   
   >   
   > [begin excerpt]   
   >   
   > According to a recently released United Nations report entitled ``The   
   > Globalization of Crime,'' most of the firearms used by Mexico's drug   
   > cartels are purchased in the estimated 6,700 gun shops along the U.S.   
   > border with Mexico.   
   >   
   > Smugglers use ``straw purchasers'' to buy the weapons, and then take them   
   > across the border concealed in some of the 88 million private cars that   
   > make border crossings each year. An estimated 20,000 mostly sophisticated   
   > weapons are trafficked annually south of the U.S. border, it said.   
   >   
   > A U.S. Government Accountability Office report last year concluded that   
   > ``available evidence indicates that a large proportion of firearms   
   > fueling Mexican drug violence originated in the United States, including   
   > a growing number of increasingly lethal weapons.''   
      
   Well, they discard themselves as a reputable source.  Guns don't fuel   
   violence, people do.  Guns are inanimate objects, any fool knows that.   
      
   The problem isn't guns, the problem is (violent) people.  Don't   
   eliminate guns, eliminate the violent people.   
      
   As I said elsewhere, we should be handing out assault weapons to   
   border-state citizens with the charge to defend the country.   
      
   That would be a start to solving the problem, as opposed to the 'ban'   
   blather that does nothing for the problem, but ironically, makes the   
   problem worse.   
      
   Duh.   
      
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