Remember when U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder proclaimed that a new gun ban would help Mexico?
“Well…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. I think that will have a positive impact in Mexico, at a minimum.”
Now, the UN wants Mexico’s military to stop fighting the drug cartels, because human rights groups reported a “spike in abuse claims” and “disappearance cases that can no longer only be attributed to organized crime.”
“Abuse claims against the National Defense Ministry hit about 1,500 last year, up from fewer than 200 claims in 2006, according to Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission.” Click to enlarge.
The Clinton gun ban ended in 2004. Between 2004 and 2007, Mexico’s murder rate declined 6.7%, on top of a 32.3% decrease between 1997 and 2004. Mexican President Calderon “launched an offensive against the drug gangs shortly after taking office in late 2006.” Homicide rates began climbing in 2008.
(Rates calculated from government crime data and IMF population estimates.)
The green line indicates the trend line through 2007, which descends more sharply than the trend through 2009. Until Calderon’s declaration of war, Mexico’s murder rate was in its steepest decline.
Mexico’s domestic war, not Clinton’s “assault weapons” ban, is far more likely the cause of increased violence.
I don’t care what is good for Mexico. I don’t care how many people the Mexican Army kills. Mexico has oil, gas, copper,silver and gold. It has thousands of miles of great waterfront real estate. It gets hundreds of millions in remittance from illegals in this country. They already get aid to “fight the drug war”. If that isn’t enough I don’t care if they end up poorer than Haiti. Holder is an moron if he thinks Mexico is a good excuse to inhibit the 2od Amendment. If this political hack wanted to stop weapons to Mexico he should have stopped the ATF from facilitating the transport of hundreds or is it thousands of “assult weapons” to Mexico.
I knew from the moment they said they were getting guns from the US that:
a. They were lieing
b. They were misinformed
c. Lieing with a bigger goal that no one said anything to ban more guns from law abiding Americans.
d. Supplying them to the Mexican criminals themselves. And was going to blame law abiding American’s for it.
e. Ignore the FACT that Clinton’s gun ban was a failure and gun control is a looser topic in an America where the people are better informed not from their leaders or the news but from research and information widely available with impeccable integrity from the internet. Where researchers like Howard put together the information and point out the flaws in others arguments that don’t care about the truth they have a bigger agenda to ban all guns and this is just another step to that goal.