The Obama administration will seek to reinstate the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 during the Bush administration, Attorney General Eric Holder said today. "As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons," Holder told reporters. Holder said that putting the ban back in place would not only be a positive move by the United States, it would help cut down on the flow of guns going across the border into Mexico, which is struggling with heavy violence among drug cartels along the border. "I think that will have a positive impact in Mexico, at a minimum." Holder said at a news conference on the arrest of more than 700 people in a drug enforcement crackdown on Mexican drug cartels operating in the U.S. Mexican government officials have complained that the availability of sophisticated guns from the United States have emboldened drug traffickers to fight over access routes into the U.S...ABC News
What a ridiculous rationale for the ban. The only place they can get weapons is from the U.S.? That's laughable.
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I don't know that it is the weapons that have "emboldened" these criminals so much as the ridiculous amount of money they can make from selling drugs to Americans. There is a really great story about this that examines multiple arguments: http://www.newsy.com/
It mentions that 90% of the weapons used by the cartels can from the U.S. but I don't see how that means Americans should lose rights. If I lived on the border I would be arming myself, since the violence is now pouring over the border. Especially in Az
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