Obama to Seek New Assault Weapons Ban… To Stop Violence in Mexico?
February 26th, 2009Well, I said, “Don’t dawdle.”
And here we are.
Via: ABC News:
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.
What utter bullshit. The Mexican cartels are using heavy machine guns and RPGs. They sure as hell didn’t buy them in this country (unless the local National Guard armories in the southwest are holding weekend rummage sales of surplus weapons to raise funds with which to buy new Hummers to replace the ones they lost in Iraq).