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My spanglish sucks and that’s google says.
Another piece (and recurring theme) in the press is that evil America is sending it’s evil guns across the Mexican border. Here’s one such bit:
At least 80 percent of all of the weapons used by drug traffickers in Mexico to kill one another as well as police and soldiers come from the U.S., Mexican officials say. They’ve repeatedly asked the U.S. government for more help in stopping the flow of weapons from Texas and other border states into Mexico.
Hey, you know what stop that? Give up? Bueller? A secure border.
Meanwhile, Josh Horwitz brings the bilingual PSH. Lamenting Mexico’s gun violence problem (which is unpossible with their strict gun controls), he notes:
Their guns of choice are extremely lethal: assault rifles (fully legal in the U.S. since the expiration of the federal ban in 2004), .50 caliber sniper rifles (capable of puncturing armor from long distances) and high-velocity handguns like the FN Herstal-57 (known south of the border as the “mata policia” or “cop killer”).
Assault rifles have been heavily regulated since 1934 and new transfer to civilains was banned in 1986. You know what else is capable of puncturing armor from long distances? Your dad’s 30-06. And no one calls the FN FiveseveN a cop killer except the anti-gun lobby.
But, seriously, a secure border would keep our guns out of Mexico.
June 11th, 2008 at 9:22 am
They always call that pathetic, little, micro-caliber Euro-weenie-pistol, that no government agency on the planet actually uses because it’s so silly, a “cop killer”, but they never name a cop who’s been killed with one. I did a Google search and found no evidence of any police officer who had been killed with one. Ever.
Maybe it’s some sort of Orwellian, future crime, fantasy thing that’s as real as reality for them because it’s just too politically convenient for them to pass up on account of the fact that they have honesty issues. Or maybe they’re just wacky.
June 11th, 2008 at 10:22 am
“igh-velocity handguns like the FN Herstal-57 (known south of the border as the “mata policia” or “cop killer”).”
I really wish they would stop saying that. Every time a GFW says something like that it makes me want to buy it a little more. Just to make them sad.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Hey, we at least we make decent guns. Mexican stuff is crap.