We Feel You ... But Not THAT Much!
The murders of several U.S. citizens connected to the American consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico has elicited the usual transparently fake concern by the usual suspects in Washington.
President Obama sent out to a flack to say that the Chief Executive was “deeply saddened and outraged.”
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared that the murders:
… underscore the imperative of our continued commitment to work closely with the Government of President Calderon to cripple the influence of trafficking organizations at work in Mexico.
"Gun Dealers? I Don't See No Stinking Gun Dealers!"
The unspoken overalls in the chowder of Secretary Clinton’s declarations about working closely with Mexico and crippling drug lords is the fact — political, historical, and inconvenient — that the Administration of President Obama has no intention whatever of taking on the U.S. civilian gun industry (and import houses) that are major suppliers of firearms smuggled to Mexico for use by the drug gangs and other criminals.
One of the most popular is the Barrett 50 caliber anti-armor sniper rifle. Although its inventor calls his gun “an adult toy,” Mexican criminals understand its real capabiliities, which are basically its ability to punch holes in armor from a thousand or two yards away.
Although there is nothing amusing about the war in Mexico, here’s a charming little video about the Barrett rifle.
Of course those 50 cals the cartels have were probably bought off the crooked Mexican cops…
too many many investigations and articles abound that prove that a tiny number of guns used in the mexican drug wars were purchased in the U.S.
after all, the eeevil “U.S. civilian gun industry (and import houses)”
sell at retail prices. the vast number of guns in mexico can be bought from other south american countries at half the U.S. retail price. oh, and let us not forget – - of the U.S. guns captured in mexico, some number of them were sold to them by the U.S. Dept. of State in “operation Top Gun.”