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Mexico City's English Written news paper

A little over a week ago our nation stopped in horror!

"Today's Headlines!"
http://thenews.com.mx/

There's no headlines for Jan.8,2011

http://thenews.com.mx/index.php/opinion/O02-5835.htm

Guns and the Border Monday, 17 January 2011 01:00 0 Comments
In December, the Obama administration signaled a welcome new resolve to block the torrent of illegal guns moving into Mexico and the hands of the drug cartels.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives announced it was seeking emergency authority to require 8,000 gun dealers near the border to report multiple purchases by any individual of high-firepower semiautomatic rifles that use a detachable magazine.

The bureau asked the Office of Management and Budget, which must sign off on the plan, to do so by Jan. 5. That date has come and gone without a decision.

The death toll in Mexico’s drug wars is staggering – more than 30,000 people killed as of last year. The role of American-purchased guns in that carnage is also undeniable. In the past four years, more than 60,000 guns connected to crimes in Mexico have been tracked back to American gun dealers. About three-quarters of those weapons originated from gun shops in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California, the four states covered by the A.T.F. plan.

Administration officials insist that approval will be coming soon, and we hope that is the case.

But the delay is worrying.

The budget office needs to approve the A.T.F. initiative. And the White House needs to press Congress to provide the bureau with funding for more inspectors, as well as more authority to identify and shut down see-no-evil gun dealers. Not just at the border, but everywhere.

But they do not hesitate calling America a reason for their influx of the majority of guns,which we know is not true.

From what I heard, the serial numbers on these guns taken into Mexico have been filed off and nobody can really prove they came from here.

60,000 guns have been back tracked to the US out of how many? They fail to mention that part.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was told you can't buy fully automatic weapons in the US? I'd also like to know how many guns are sold to drug cartels from the Mexican military. There have been a few articles about Taliban style bombings, how many guns do the cartels get from them?

Did anyone see anything about Tucson in their paper? I looked all I saw was NObama's speech and on the front page today"was virtual fence gone!"

I have a great idea! Since so many guns are flowing into Mexico via the US, Mexico needs to never let a single Mexican cross into the US ever again! You know, so nobody can come over here to get guns and bring them back!

well then mexico should put up a border fence to protect them from the bad gun dealers in the usa...no drugs or illegals coming from mexico no guns and money going to mexico...