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Mexican national security official Alejandro Poiré Romero

Delusion at WaPo:
Newspaper Says
US Gun Laws Cause
Mexican Gun Problems

(GunReports.com) -- A Feb. 4 editorial signed by the Washington Post's Editorial Board is remarkable for its studied ignorance of the causes of violence in Mexico. The lead sentence asks rhetorically, "Do American's failed gun policies contribute to the terrible violence in Mexico? Alejandro A. Poire Romero makes a compelling case that the answer is yes."

Poire Romero is cited as a top Mexican national security and criminal justice official, and he is quoted as saying, “The significant rise in violence and the increase in the number of public officials killed in Mexico coincides with lifting of the assault weapons ban.”

WaPo's board doesn't disclose if it asked Poire Romero whether full-auto weapons are the problem, since those are actually "assault weapons." And full-auto weapon sales in the United States are heavily restricted.

WaPo also doesn't ask if Mexican government and law-enforcement corruption is a problem that might contribute to "terrible violence in Mexico."

And, amazingly, the WaPo board says Eric Holder's Fast and Furious gunrunning program was "well-intentioned":

"Yet Fast and Furious was a well-intentioned, misguided response to — and not the cause of — the proliferation of illegal guns in Mexico. To stanch that flow, the Obama administration and Congress should heed the pleas of Mr. Poire Romero and his countrymen by reviving the assault weapons ban and closing the gun show loophole that makes it far too easy to sell weapons without a background check. The White House and lawmakers should work to enact a federal firearms trafficking statute and call for stiffer penalties for illegal straw purchases. Lawmakers also should confirm a chief for the ATF and give the beleaguered agency enough money and personnel to fulfill its mission of keeping illegal guns out of the hands of criminals on both sides of the border."

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Comment by: KT | February 9, 2012

It's not the US gun laws that are causing Mexican gun problems..... It's the US BATFE and its nefarious schemes such as Operation Fast and Furious, that are causing Mexico's gun problems. Also.....The corruption of Mexican government officials, in the face of Mexico having some of the most restrictive gun laws on the planet, is a big factor. How dare these two bit tin horns blame the USA for their problems that they have generated themselves?

Comment by: canovack | February 9, 2012

Trouble is, most of the sheeple don't bother to find the truth for themselves and believe this horse puckey. You know, like the "hope and change" voters.

Comment by: jwash111 | February 9, 2012

Well, I'm not sure I'd blame the BATFEces for this one. Mexico has plenty of their own corruption and criminal behavior to have a "gun problem" all on their own, without any help from the rest of the world.

Comment by: PVB | February 9, 2012

Even this summary of the story is to blame. What Romero said was “It’s clear that we did not know and would never have approved of an operation that let guns walk into Mexico,”. The rest is WaPo speculation and opinion. But they segued seamlessly from Romero to their op-ed agenda, so it's confusing - and apparently even to the guy who wrote the summary above.

Romero also does NOT say the rise in violence is associated with the end of the US ban on assault weapons - only "the ban on assault weapons". So maybe Mexico had one that they dropped?

Comment by: david b | February 9, 2012

Mexico has some of the strictest gun laws on the books in the Western Hemisphere. And the worst gun violence in the world. But it the U.S.A. 's fault. Who would thought.

Comment by: Lone-ranger60 | February 10, 2012

Head for the hills!! The Post guys are off their meds again. F&F was "well-intentioned, misguided?" What are they going to come up with next? Hitler's concentration camps were a well-intentioned, misguided effort at social and labor reform?

Comment by: Visigoth52 | February 10, 2012

Visigoth52 - I think they're saving that 'social and labor reform' slant for FEMA's detention / labor camps.

Comment by: david b | February 10, 2012

Tons of guns are coming from Panama, Hounduras and Colombia. The media need to fess up, but then, that would take balls, which they do not have.

Comment by: Cecil B | February 10, 2012

So, how do I get in on some of those guns the drug gangs are buying for $50 each? I wouldn't mind having a basement full of AKs, HKs and AMDs. I'm actually jealous, you know. Think about it.

Those drug cartel guys are buying somebody's military surplus for about $50 per, filling the hemisphere south of Rio Grande with military grade small arms. Meanwhile our government is not only fudging programs to make it look like WE are to blame, but does everything it can to keep us from getting any of those guns for ourselves. Hell, we just had a big fight about some old Korean Garands, right? But to my knowledge none of those will be full-auto, 20 or 30 round mag rifles.

So, just to go off the deep end and maybe make some sense again - I'm wondering why, if the US Government wants to control small arms in neighboring countries - WE don't buy all those surplussed guns and sell them to American citizens. It would deprive the drug guys of their bountiful supply at fire sale pricing. Buying them at $50 each, we could even inspect them individually, part out the bad ones, and still sell them thru CMP for about $100 each. At prices like that, we could start rifle training in middle school and issue one free to every high school graduate.

It's the same thing with those spare Russian nuke warheads. They were going for a lousy million per on the black market. So we're terrified of some terrorist buying them and detonating them here. But how many did we buy just to dismantle? Zero. And how many millions will we spend (or are we spending) to find just one of those bombs before the BGs sneak it in across our wide open border or one of our uninspected shipping ports?

Comment by: david b | February 11, 2012

Follow the money David - though we don't have access to that trail! I would wager there are senators with their hands in the illegal trade cookie jars, be it guns, drugs, or anything else....

The nukes would have been an interesting idea, though I doubt we would have obtained the "bargain price" of $1 mil, nor would we have been sold all of them.

Comment by: PVB | February 12, 2012

PVB - you may be right about the price, but we didn't try so there's no way to know. $1 mil US was reported to be the going black market price....

And all of them, probably not. The more we got the higher the bidding would have been for the rest - bidding by rogues, psychos and criminals. However, every one we got off the market would have been one less to worry about. Right now we probably worry about what - a few thousand of them? Even if the ante had gone up, I think it would have been cheaper to buy them than to try to track them down now and know where they are and who has them. And a damned sight cheaper than 100% inspections at every shipping port in the US forever.

Of course, now, with NAFTA, all they have to do is bury one in a crate of oranges and truck it right up from Mexico into Missouri because we won't be inspecting those cargoes. And you could even hide it in a crate-load of border-jumpers. They don't inspect those either! ;-)

Comment by: david b | February 12, 2012

And don't forget the bioweapons lab that the Russians just walked away from, leaving the shit in old refrigerators in tin cans. We are over there trying to clean it up but how much of it walked off too?

Comment by: Cecil B | February 12, 2012