by Pa Rock
Outraged Citizen
Most third graders know the score when it comes to the violence spilling out of Mexico. There is a huge market for their illegal drugs in the United States, and that market creates enormous amounts of cash. The drug cartels of Mexico are fighting each other to control the drug trade and to rake in all of that easy gringo money. One of the things that they spend their ill-gotten wealth on is guns so that they can keep fighting and killing each other - as well as innocent bystanders on both sides of the border.
And where do they get those guns? Why, from the gun-craziest country in the world, the United States of America.
So, here's the flowchart: illegal drugs go north, money goes south, money goes back north to buy guns, guns go south, and death spreads exponentially. Of course it's that simple - ask any third grader!
President Obama has it figured out. He said we are going to disrupt the flow of drugs heading north and cripple the flow of guns making their way south. The Department of Homeland Security will begin to focus on both ends of the illegal traffic. It's a good plan, and it's about time! Ask any third grader.
But the NRA and its head tool, Wayne LaPierre, don't see it that way. Wayne's first big lie is that the Mexicans are being armed by other countries and not by God's chosen gun-toting (and gun-peddling) Americans. He also sees this sudden move by our government to protect its citizens as some sinister forerunner to gun control. Ask any third grader and he will tell you that ole Wayne is full of horseshit.
The primary constituent and funder of the National Rifle Association is, was, and always will be the gun manufacturers - and those boys want to see every human on the planet armed to the teeth with everything from little derringers to fully automatic assault weapons. It's marketing. It's evil marketing.
More guns do not make anyone safer. More guns equal more danger. Ask any third grader, or ask any parent of a child who died from being curious about a gun he or she came across in their home - a gun that had been purchased to make the home a safer place for the family to live.
The National Rifle Association wants to protect its Mexican gun market - but at what cost? It's not about constitutional rights, it's not about protection. It's about profits, plain and simple. Ask any sentinent being.
2 comments:
Anyone who tries to disrupt the gun trade and the drug trade will be fighting a hard to win battle. The entrenched interests of guns and drugs are so formidable, that I fear for our president's safety. Remember Mena? Remember the gun smuggling in the 1980s that Ronald Reagan was over?
It is for this reason that marijuana will never be legalized in the US - this would hurt the status quo.
The only thing that will fix it is for the citizens of our country to band together against the gun and drug trade. But as long as the NRA preaches God and Guns together, this may not happen.
Good points, Pinkie. I fear that you may be right. I saw on the news where gun sales have been up by over 15% ever since Obama's election. As long as the cretins on Fox keep foaming at the mouth about their notion of an impending police state, none of us will be safe - particularly President Obama.
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