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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Maxiest on January 12, 2013, 08:18:30 PM
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I took a link from Nadine's Facebook to the highly acclaimed East County Magazine.
I just got to this part:
I come at this not just as a gun owner, but also as a former first responder who saw firsthand what a NATO round or a Warsaw round can do to the human body. Mexico, where I worked with the Red Cross, is a place where these weapons are used regularly by the cartels.
http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/node/11963
Then a little light bulb goes off in my head... Doesn't Mexico have super strict gun laws?
Yes they do:
There is only 1 store in all of Mexico that sells guns.
There is now only one legal gun store in Mexico -- in Mexico City -- and buyers must wait months for approval of purchase from the Ministry of Defense. Purchases are limited to small caliber, non-military weapons that must be kept at home; semi-automatic weapons are only sold to military and police. After the 1960s, Mexican law was changed to prohibit private citizens from openly carrying a firearm or carrying a concealed weapon.
http://www.fronterasdesk.org/news/2012/dec/17/wake-us-shootings-look-mexican-gun-laws/
Yet they had more deaths by gun and less gun owners than the US. Hmmmm...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jul/22/gun-homicides-ownership-world-list
There is more reveling data in the above link but I didn't feel like picking through it all.
We have almost the highest rate of ownership but are way way down the list as far as deaths per 100,000 people.
Just saying.
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Mexico.
Some of the highest firewarm restrictions on the planet.
How's that gun control working out for you, gNads?
DUmb scrunt.
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Amusingly enough I saw this story pop to the top of my news feed.
Vigilante groups police two Mexican towns (http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/world/vigilante-groups-police-two-mexican-towns/)
AAP so I can't bring over any content.
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You know, last night, because I was bored with reading--spending most of my time in bed, due to an affliction demanding that--I this time took with me a great big coffee-table-sized book of photographs of Mexico, to look at pictures until I fell asleep.
Now, I'm sort of familiar with Mexico, but never paid much attention, as the history and culture of Latin America hasn't ever been anything to row my boat, rock my chair, push my buttons. It's nice and all that, but it's just something that doesn't turn me on.
After looking at these photographs, I became rather impressed with the beauty, the glory, the splendors, the people, of that country.
It struck me that the oblate spheroid never really saw her native country, and from the crib circa 1964 or 1965 thought of nothing more than getting out of there and coming to America, as Mexico wasn't "good enough" for her.
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And her name is "nadin", not "nadine". It's one of her countless misspelled words that isn't actually misspelled.
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I can remember a post some time back in the old Guns forum where Nads claimed to have been a "gun runner" ( :lmao: ) in one of her bullshit incarnations.
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And her name is "nadin", not "nadine". It's one of her countless misspelled words that isn't actually misspelled.
Yes, but in the highly clammed magazine she goes by Nadin Abbott.