XPost: talk.politics.guns   
   From: bliss@sfo.com   
      
   On 09/06/2010 03:57 PM, JohnR wrote:   
   > "Peter Franks"  wrote in message   
   > news:i60qrn$flt$1@news.eternal-september.org...   
   >> 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.   
   	   
   	A good drug runner is if not rich at least well off.   
   	Controlled Substances act should be labeled Price   
   Support for the Dealers.   
   	   
   >>   
   >> 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?   
   >>   
   > A good drug runner is a very wealthy drug runner thanks to the idiotic and   
   > illogical support for prohibition of some drugs. If you want to put the   
   > criminals out of business then take the trade off them, then little if any   
   > of this lawless drug related spiral of violence would occur in the first   
   > place.   
   >   
   >   
   	Yes putting the business into the hands of the criminal   
   entrepreneurs is a legislative blunder verging on incompetence   
   after the problems with the Prohibition of Alcohol.   
      
   	As for the criminals after the repeal of this prohibition   
   they will move to Medicare fraud which is a very big business in   
   Florida these days.   
   	Congress under Bush refused to adequately fund the   
   suppression of this fraud.  It was all carefully explained   
   on a "60 Minutes" show recently.  Well enough explained that it   
   must have inspired some emulation I would be guessing.   
   Caution though as Obama has funded the fraud suppression   
   portion of the Medicare staff.   
      
   	Them liberals, allis spoiling the poor man's rackets.;^|   
   	later   
   	bliss   
      
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