A study by the IGARAPE Institute of Brazil and the Trans
Border Institute of the University of San Diego provides some startling
estimates of firearm trafficking. This study estimates that between 100,000 and
380,000 weapons are smuggled across the border annually from the United States
to Mexico. This smuggling has increased
markedly from the 90’s. The strict
firearms control laws in Mexico make it a prime market for traffickers.
How ironic that the United States is providing the weapons
to the drug warriors who are killing each other to determine who supplies drugs
to the abundant market here.
But is there more?
Could Mexico be the first stop of these guns on their way to Afghanistan
to be used against our troops? Surely
gun traffickers have no conscience, and U.S. Government’s ability to intercept
trafficking is limited.
Please, somebody, prove to me that movement of our weapons
to Afghanistan isn’t—couldn’t be—happening.
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