Reuters reports:
"Fourteen Mexican drug gang members were killed and eight others were injured in a gun battle near the U.S. border on Saturday that was one of the bloodiest shootouts in Mexico's three-year-long narco-war. Rival factions of the local Arellano Felix drug cartel in Tijuana on the Mexico-California border fought each other with rifles and machine guns in the early hours of the morning, police said. Some 190 people have been killed in Tijuana so far this year. In 2007, there were more than 2,500 drug killings across Mexico and there have been more than 900 this year."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080426/ts_nm/... There's a war going on right over our southern border and for this we can thank good old American entrepreneurs and the Second Amendment.
ABC reports:
"U.S. gun stores and gun shows are the source of more than 90 percent of the weapons being used by Mexico's ruthless drug cartels, according to U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials.
'It's a war going on in Mexico, and these types of firearms are the weapons of war for them,' said Bill Newell, the special agent in charge of the Phoenix field division of the ATF, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which has primary law enforcement jurisdiction for investigating gun trafficking to Mexico.
'It's virtually impossible to buy a firearm in Mexico as a private citizen, so this country is where they come,' said Newell."
Yay, American freedom!
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=469... Maybe Eric Thomson, the online gun dealer who sold weapons to the Virginia-Tech and Northern Illinois University shoohers should think about moving to San Diego?
Eric Thomson initially said he was "blown away" by the fact that both the Virginia Tech killer and the guy who blew away five people at Northern Illinois University both got their guns from his online gun store. He said then: "I'm shaking. I can't believe somebody would order from us again and do this," but now, after some deep reflection and soul searching, he's decided to cash-in by getting his face plastered all over the news for offering guns at cost to everyone and anyone who needs a firearm to protect themselves from the crazy people he sells guns to.
What a virtuous circle.
