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   From: none@none.com   
      
   NRACLAPTRAP wrote:   
   > On Sep 6, 12:52 pm, Peter Franks  wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > Well, if people are violent why would you insist we kill each other?   
   > Why not simply hit each other with our hands?   
      
   Why do you advocate the perpetuation of violence?   
      
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