Bi-National Panel Calls for “Ban” on Automatic Weapons

A bi-national panel of scholars and former – note the word former – government officials is calling for an American crackdown on firearms and urging the government to try to clamp down on the export of illegal guns and cash to Mexico. This brain trust also says Mexico needs “in turn must do more to stop to flow of illegal drugs and immigrants to the United States,” according to The Houston Chronicle. The paper further reports that the panel suggests the creation of unified and effective border police force.

Wait a second, isn’t part of the latter problem – that of illegal drugs and immigrants – is because of the corruption within the Mexican police, so why should we believe for even a second that a unified police force could even be trustworthy? We can’t.

But for this group of individuals to suggest we “reimpose” the ban on automatic weapons is silly. Silly, because automatic weapons are already extremely difficult to obtain legally in the United States. So either the paper or the report from this panel misunderstood automatic weapons with “assault weapons,” which were banned under President Clinton. And not to sound snide, but I think the United States should deal with the flow of the illegal drugs and illegal immigrants into this country and work to stop it. Let Mexico stop its own drug wars. When the drug pipeline closes, so will their gun problem.