It’s hard to miss the message here:
President Felipe Calderon on Thursday unveiled a “No More Weapons!” billboard made with crushed firearms and placed near the U.S. border. He urged the United States to stop the flow of weapons into Mexico.
The billboard, which is in English and weighs 3 tons, was placed near an international bridge in Ciudad Juarez and can be seen from the United States.
Calderon said the billboard’s letters were made with weapons seized by local, state and federal authorities.
“Dear friends of the United States, Mexico needs your help to stop this terrible violence that we’re suffering,” Calderon said in English during the unveiling ceremony.
“The best way to do this is to stop the flow of automatic weapons into Mexico,” he added.
Before unveiling the billboard, Calderon supervised the destruction of more than 7,500 automatic rifles and handguns at a military base in Ciudad Juarez.
Question for Calderon: Why isn’t this sign written in Chinese or Russian and facing the Pacific? The vast majority of Mexico’s automatic weapons aren’t coming from the US. They’re coming from arms dealers in China and from Eastern Europe, and from points south of Mexico.
Of the ones that did come from the US, thousands were part of Fast and Furious. So maybe the sign is directed at Eric Holder?
That leads to my second question for Calderon: Were any of the gun crushed to make that sign, Fast and Furious guns? Do you destroy any Fast and Furious evidence just to make an idiotic point against innocent Americans?
How long will it take before it reads: MORE WEAPONS!?
Ironically, Mexico has very strict gun laws. That sign would seem to imply that their gun control efforts are a failure.
Le batimos en dos guerras y ocupamos a su capital. ¿Hacerle tres veces?
If I could do a Bugs Bunny and saw away Mexico so that it and the entirety of Latin America would float south I would do so. The arrogant attitudes of Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Bolivia and the rest of those unfortunate failed experiments in human society can go eat a bug. If I had 10 dollars for every shanty town in Latin America I’d buy Belize and advertise there’s free land for anyone from the Ukraine.
Strange, I wasn’t aware that we were responsible for guarding Mexico’s border for them. Contrast that with the hissy fit they throw anytime we improve the security of our own border or immigration enforcement by even a small degree.
Now we just need a sign made from weapons, fake ID’s, and other appropriate items on our side of the boarder that reads “NO MORE ILLEGALS!”
Yes, it’s our fault that you are culturally barbarians. Go figure. How convenient for you.
(If you ever get the opportunity, read Jerry Pournellle’s take on how the Spanish-descended are culturally still barbarians. Fascinating read.)
“Spanish-descended” are, culturally, Muslim-descended (more properly, Muslim-handicapped). Al-Andalus set back most Iberian cultures by at least two centuries, something from which they have yet to recover.
Don’t be silly, of course it’s our fault! You can’t really expect them to accept any responsibility for their country being a third world cesspool that’s governed by a corrupt and inefficent government that can’t enforce law and order in over half of the country!
So they want the US to stop licensing export of automatic weapons to the Mexican military and government? Because if it’s automatic weapons, they came from official sales.
Ok. You got us, Mexico. We are terrible neighbors. We admit it.
The only thing to do is admit that we can’t be trusted. You will have to do what you have to do.
What you have to do is erect a major, impassable fence all along the border between the US and Mexico. You must pay your military to man this wall and fire on anyone trying to cross it from either side. You must stop all north-south traffic to prevent us from sending more guns into your country.
Ok? Get to work and build that wall. We deserve your castigating us this way!
This is obviously a demand problem. Calderon should reduce demand for guns instead of looking for someone else to solve a culture driven demand problem.
Wasn’t that the official position of past Mexican govts in regards to US drug problems. Of course, the Mexicans aren’t making as much money from the gun trade as they do from the drug trade.
Mexico, Here’s a deal for you: Give us back all the weapons you can acquire and we’ll give you back all the illegals who violated our borders.
Then there are all the arms purchased by the Mexican Government, VIA the State Department that their police and Army keep losing.
“Loosing” them? Yeah, riiight! More likely, the Mexican Army is selling the weapons to the cartels themselves!