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Mexican President Calls for U.S. to Reinstall Assault Weapons Ban

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Thursday, May 20, 2010 at 12:57 pm

Roll Call reports:

Mexican President Felipe Calderon called for the reinstatement of a ban on the sale of assault weapons in the U.S. while reiterating his opposition to a controversial Arizona immigration law during an address to a joint session of Congress on Thursday.

Calderon, citing his administration’s efforts to address the growing violence on the border related to the drug trade, argued that the spike in violence resulted in part from the end of the assault weapons ban in 2004.

Some Democrats on Capitol Hill, as well as Attorney General Eric Holder, have floated the idea of proposing a renewal of the assault weapons ban. But in the face of opposition from the gun lobby — not to mention the conservative Democrats who represent most of the party’s gains in recent elections — that idea has gone precisely nowhere.

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Comment posted November 27, 2010 @ 11:30 pm

How dare Mexican President Felipe Calderon.

1) we don’t tell them what law to pass in Mex.
2) we don’t have drug cartels killing civilans on our streets
3) when the problem was in south america, mex. truned a blind eye.
4) Our assault rifles fire single shots, there cartel uses fully auto weapons.
5) if they are worried about weapons coming into there country, they should do as we do worried about drugs coming into ours (CHECK THEM AT THE BORDER).
6) If they curb the flow of drugs coming out of there country, that would curb the need of guns going into there country.

the only violence that we hear from is on there border, not in our cities, towns but we have assult weapons all over this country.
When we have problems wit assult weapons in chicago, long island, albuquerque,vermont,cleveland then maybe we could look at baning them.
But ban them because some other country is having issuses that THEY can not control.

before when we ask them to do something about the drugs, they told us (Well if America did not want so much drugs then the demand would not be there)

So now if the cartel was not pushing so much drugs up here, then the Demand for american assault weapons would not be there.

WE HAVE ASSULT WEAPONS AND WE DON”T HAVE THE PROBLEM WITH THEM THAT THEY HAVE.
So is it the ASSULT WEAPONS OR THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE THEM DOWN THERE????

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Comment posted November 27, 2010 @ 11:30 pm

How dare Mexican President Felipe Calderon.

1) we don’t tell them what law to pass in Mex.
2) we don’t have drug cartels killing civilans on our streets
3) when the problem was in south america, mex. truned a blind eye.
4) Our assault rifles fire single shots, there cartel uses fully auto weapons.
5) if they are worried about weapons coming into there country, they should do as we do worried about drugs coming into ours (CHECK THEM AT THE BORDER).
6) If they curb the flow of drugs coming out of there country, that would curb the need of guns going into there country.

the only violence that we hear from is on there border, not in our cities, towns but we have assult weapons all over this country.
When we have problems wit assult weapons in chicago, long island, albuquerque,vermont,cleveland then maybe we could look at baning them.
But ban them because some other country is having issuses that THEY can not control.

before when we ask them to do something about the drugs, they told us (Well if America did not want so much drugs then the demand would not be there)

So now if the cartel was not pushing so much drugs up here, then the Demand for american assault weapons would not be there.

WE HAVE ASSULT WEAPONS AND WE DON”T HAVE THE PROBLEM WITH THEM THAT THEY HAVE.
So is it the ASSULT WEAPONS OR THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE THEM DOWN THERE????

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