Using Mexico’s problems to advance gun restrictions in U.S.
I see where the spokesmen for our government and the mainstream media are blaming the US gun owners for supplying the Mexican drug cartels with firearms. How ridiculous! To suggest I’ve sent two dozen AK-47’s, along with a box of hand grenades and a hundred rpg’s to Mexico for profit.
The US government is, by far, the largest supplier of arms and ammunition to the world. Wherever there is profit to be made(good old American capitalism), you will find American arms. Far more likely these are military arms and armament originating from the mass producers of such, here in the US and sold to a proxy of the drug cartels, or sold directly to the Mexican government to be resold at great profit from a corrupt Mexican government official. I offer as proof of this the refusal by the Mexican government to provide the serial numbers of the confiscated arms. This would lead directly to the source. The good old USA selling arms to its neighbors for profit, to be used for killing each other and our citizens as the violence spills across the southern border. Now they want to pressure the legal gun owners in the US by further restrictions that do not begin to address the problem. Sounds like typical government to me.
John Czarnecki
Bonne Terre, Mo.


John, it is the same old liberal blame America routine.
Yep magnum, John is blaming America. And he’s probably correct, arms merchants have no conscience. We have provided guns to both sides on almost every conflict in the world.
Smith
That is just like blaming and trying to sue gun manufacturers, for a stolen gun used in a crime. Hell, lets sue the car manufacturers for someone getting killed with a stolen car.
It is soooooo much easier to blame the legal trade of guns in OUR country than to secure the border and prevent illegal trafficking of guns into Mehico, illegal drugs into the US, and the monstrous problem of illegal aliens entering our country.
Psychologists and sociologists have long maintained that male enthusiasms for firearms arise from insecurities pertaining to the inadequate size of their sexual organs. This insecurity, when paired with unrestricted “good old American capitalism,” is responsible for an increasingly dangerous development for those living on both sides of the southern border. This situation clearly shows the need for more government oversight on firearms manufacturers. Furthermore, education and therapy has proven successful in dealing with sexual inadequacy among gun enthusiasts. I am willing to discuss this issue with firearms owners on this post, however, for the benefit of all, please keep your teeny tiny penises out of the discussion.
CDR, is there anything that you think cant be fixed by increased government involvement?
Instead of monitoring gun manufacturers, they should monitor the border with armed soldiers.
Commander Barkfeather,
Perhaps if you were a little more secure in your own sexuality you wouldn’t be so concerned about ours. As a gun owner I have no problems with my sexuality and I could care less about yours.
Now, to get back on subject. I can guarantee you that even if the gun store owners along the border are selling to straw buyers, which I doubt, they are not selling RPGs and hand grenades. I also doubt they are selling fully automatic weapons. If they where, the Mexican government would be falling all over themselves to provide serial numbers to trace. Instead they just blame the US with no proof.
A more likely scenario is the corrupt Mexican government selling the weapons sold to them by arms dealers from all over the world (AK-47s are not manufactured in the United States). They are not buying legal weapons in the US and selling them in Mexico. Even if they are, which I doubt, it is the problem of the Mexican government. Perhaps if we would CONTROL OUR BORDERS and build the fence congress authorized and the American Taxpayers paid for we wouldn’t have this problem now.
Write and call your congress critter and demand we control our own borders. Then we could also control this problem.
It doesn’t really matter so much where these arms come from. If the mission is to ban guns (or ammo), a convincing crisis or two or three will be manufactured or exploited to get a grip on public opinion. If the ‘gun crisis’ is connected to the ‘banking crisis’ is connected to the ‘healthcare crisis’, so much the easier.
So Commander, did all that therapy help you. Do you still feel inadequate? Is size your problem or is it performance that is giving you the most trouble? I hear a lot of liberals like you have those problems. How sad!!!
You had that coming!
We should examine the role of the U.S. government in the illegal drug trade. As former DEA agent Cele Castillo has documented, the DEA and CIA are intimately involved in drug smuggling. Castillo has personally witnessed CIA drug smuggling operations funneled through terrorists that were also involved in kidnappings and the training of death squads on behalf of the U.S. government.
Evidence of this surfaced on September 24, 2008, when a Grumman Gulfstream II jet crashed near Cancun, Mexico with 4 tons of cocaine onboard. The plane had the same registration number as a CIA transport plane used to ferry prisoners to Guantanamo Bay between 2003 and 2005.
CIA involvement in cocaine trafficking in partnership with the Contras was so rampant in the 1980s that the CIA’s Inspector General Fred Hitz was obliged to testify before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence admitting as much.
In fact the former head of the DEA, Robert Bonner, admits the CIA smuggles drugs into the United States.
So important are illicit drug profits for Wall Street and the banksters, Richard Grasso, Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, flew to Colombia in 1999 to meet with a spokesperson for Raul Reyes of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC), the supposed “narco terrorists.” It was explained at the time that Grasso was dispatched “to bring a message of cooperation from U.S. financial services” and discuss foreign investment and the future role of U.S. businesses in Colombia. In fact, as a Wall Street mob boss, Grasso was talking with the Marxist FARC in order to keep to the circulation of cocaine bucks surging through Wall Street financial institutions.
In February, the United Nation’s Office on Drugs and Crime Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa told an Austrian magazine that drug money has been the only thing that has kept many major banks in business. “In many instances, drug money is currently the only liquid investment capital,” said Costa.
In 2008, the U.S. Justice Department opened an investigation into money transfers conducted by Wachovia bank. It is alleged that Wachovia transferred funds from drug deals in the United States to Mexican and Columbian money-exchange houses, or casas de cambio.
It is not only Wachovia, however, that is suspected of laundering money for the drug cartels. American Express International Bank, Bank Atlantic, the Union Bank of California, the Sigue Corp. and others, according to the Justice Department, have resolved cases of money laundering to avoid federal prosecution.
The Mexican Attorney General’s office says many of the casas de cambio are part of an elaborate system which funnels drug money through U.S. banks, on to European banks and then back to the U.S. and Latin America (see The Banking Industry’s Dirty Little Secret: Money Laundering For The Drug Cartels).
The idea here is not to put an end to the lucrative Mexican drug business. Instead, it is a cynical effort to contrive yet another excuse to chip away at the Second Amendment and take guns away from law-abiding American citizens that have nothing to do with the problem-reaction-solution drug war in Mexico.
Roger Rufe and the Ministry of Homeland Security will eventually call for the deployment of troops but this has nothing to do with ending the violence along the border – or ending illegal immigration for that matter.
In other words, the problem is not illegal immigration or the bankster spawned drug cartel war in Mexico – the problem for the government and the global elite is the American people, their guns, and archaic belief in the Second Amendment and the Constitution.