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CONTACT: Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence Peter Hamm, Communications Director Doug Pennington, Assistant Director: 202-898-0792. |
Mexico Violence And The US As The Gun Source
WASHINGTON - March 9 - The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence is issuing a background
document for journalists covering the gun violence in Mexico and the
policy issues surrounding how America’s gun laws are helping to fuel
that violence.
The paper is available at http://www.bradycenter.org/xshare/pdf/reports/mexico-us-violence-background.pdf.
“Because we make it too easy for dangerous people to get dangerous
weapons, our lack of effective, common sense gun laws is helping to
create a regional security risk and costing Mexican citizens their
lives,” said Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Center. “There are
distinct and unarguable shortcomings in our gun laws that are now
causing terrible problems not only in our country but also in our
hemisphere."
Mexican criminals can’t get guns in Mexico because the gun laws in Mexico, like those in most industrialized nations, do not allow a vast unregulated gun market, in which military-style weapons and all manner of guns are easily available to be purchased in unlimited quantity without a background check. Stymied by Mexico’s tough gun laws, the drug lords and the traffickers who supply them come to the U.S. to take advantage of our gun laws’ gaping loopholes.
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Show Allyou got it!! drug cartels that rake in millions need to sneak into the USA to get guns! Without the guns in the USA, those drug cartels would not be able to get any guns. Not even with all their millions to spend. Give me a friggin break. Just come out and say you want to ban all guns. Stop with the fear tactics and be honest with the American People. How else can the one world order happen with so many "gun nuts" in the USA. Seriously though, you think the drug cartels need the USA to get guns?!??!
These gun control people don't ever think beyond what is fed to them. Since when are we worried about violence in Mexico!!??!! We (US government and contractors) are the bigger exporter of arm in the world. The US has refused to sign the treaty to ban landmines, and even ban cluster bombs. Our arms kill and maim people all around the world. So obviously the Brady Center and gun control supporters (so called "liberal" democrats) are not so worried about violence in the world--violence caused by the US arms exports. This whole "violence in Mexico" is just another excuse for them to put more restrictions on legal gun ownership in the U.S. It is to prevent the law abiding citizens from buys and possessing guns.
Although on its face it seems laudable goal to prevent deaths and suffering in Mexico (and elsewhere), it's absolutely disingenuous for the Brady Center or gun control supporters to pretend to care about welfare of Mexican citizens. The leading cause of death in Mexico is poverty-related infections but I don't see many Americans caring to reduce poverty or do something about these preventable diseases. Sure Brady Center can argue that its only concern is gun violence and that's what it is trying to tackle. But, there is a simpler solution to Mexican gun violence--ending the "Drug War." The reason these drug lords are killing people is because their is a lucrative market for illegal drugs in the U.S. Legalize the drugs and take the huge profits out of that trade, and there will be no (or much less) violence. Additionally, this fake “war” on drugs has obliterated the Fourth Amendment.
But of course, we'd be assuming that they really are concerned with gun violence in Mexico. What they are really after is gun rights in the U.S.--they want to obliterate the Second Amendment. So watch out, when Brady Center and others tell you they are concerned with the welfare of Mexican citizens--they are here again to restrict your constitutional rights.