Posts Tagged ‘guns’
Guns harm this man’s work environment.
Posted by Benjamin J. Thompson | Filed under Linked Videos, Videos
Should they be banned?
Obama exaggerates gun statistics, but that’s not the real issue.
Posted by Benjamin J. Thompson | Filed under Liberty, News
It’s either ignorance or deceit, ’cause it sure as heck ain’t the truth. (Sounds like more right-left-baiting. Drugs and guns shouldn’t be a left-right issue. It’s a liberty versus tyranny issue. In a free country, you are permitted to defend yourself and nobody tackles you for sucking on burnt plant matter. In non-free countries, the story is different. Which kind of country would you like to live in?)
The real figure is around 17% [citation needed]. The real figure is unknown: the “left” wants to say 90%, which is demonstrably misleading because that figure comes from guns recovered and sent to the US for tracing, which is not all of the guns recovered. FOX wants to say 17%, and I don’t know where that number came from at all. The fact of the matter is that it could be 100% and make no difference. What people do in other countries with guns bought here does not nullify the inalienable rights of Americans.
The lion’s share of Mexican drug cartel firepower actually comes from the Mexican military. You can’t buy machine guns, grenades or grenade launchers from US gun shops, and they have almost total gun control victim disarmament in Mexico, leaving the Mexican military — the enforcement arm of Mexico’s depraved and hopelessly corrupt government — as the most plausible source for the automatic weapons, grenade launchers and thrown explosives the drug cartels are getting their hands on down there. If our government has been involved in the drug trade, how deep in this mess the Mexican government must be!
But the guns aren’t even the problem.
Spiraling drug violence has more to do with drug prohibition, and our governments know that. If the drugs weren’t prohibited, then the drug commodities wouldn’t carry such a huge premium, then there wouldn’t be so much money to be made in transporting them across borders, and it wouldn’t be worth all the risk and violence. If we just decriminalized all organic drugs in the US, there would be no impetus to import them from countries that still ban them. Organized crime would lose its cash crop, which would dry up a lot of the gang activity and create genuine agricultural opportunities. In many ghetto neighborhoods it appears to children that the only way out of poverty is to get into organized crime dealing drugs. Why prop up a legal system that allows bling-encrusted thugs to be the most prosperous people in poor neighborhoods? Decriminalizing drugs would bankrupt the ostentatious drug pimps in society and move their business to some place boring and safe, like Wal-Mart.
And Wal-Mart doesn’t use drug mules and AK-47s to stock their pharmacy shelves.