You know what Mexico's problem is? It's stuck with being a neighbor to the United States and new US border protection efforts are being designed to do something about that. Also, Second Amendment advocates should not be comforted when a Director of Homeland Security goes on record as being supportive of tougher domestic gun laws. See last graph. If memory serves, once upon a time in America the right to bear arms was what Homeland Security was all about. No need for that in the paradise Obama's intent on building, I guess.
“I challenge anyone to tell me to what point in (Mexico's) national territory they want to go, and I will take them,” Mr. Calderón said in a speech Thursday.
He acknowledged the magnitude of Mexico’s fight and added that its problems were a consequence of Mexico’s location next to “the biggest consumer of drugs in the world and the largest supplier of weapons in the world.”
No need to worry though, Janet Napolitano at DHS is on top of it. Wrong Way J is sending reinforcements ... to provide border protection for Mexico from US. Meanwhile Gates suggests the US military may soon be in a better position to help.
"The infrastructure and personnel are not there to do sustained outbound inspections," Nieto told a subcommittee of the House Homeland Security Committee.
Although U.S. resources have been focused on keeping illegal immigrants and drugs from heading north across the border, members of Mexico's drug cartels are smuggling guns and money south with less chance of being stopped, federal officials said.
Link: "My personal opinion is we could tighten up our gun laws," said retired Vice Adm. Roger T. Rufe Jr., director of Homeland Security's Office of Operations Coordination. "We shouldn't be selling assault weapons on the streets."
Somebody needs to ask if the ret. naval flag officer knows any naval history.
Start with the Imperial Japanese Navy's Admiral Yamamoto and his objection to going to war with the US. Something about an American with a rifle hiding behind each blade of grass in the country.
So a capability that makes an enemy commit to a strategy that precludes an invasion of the Continental US is not valuable enough to keep. Somebody needs to revisit their oaths as an officer. Primary duty is to the Constitution, of which gun rights were included as the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights.
Obligation to protect the government from the people of the US isn't in that oath.
Posted by: J'hn | Monday, March 16, 2009 at 12:41 AM