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Would relations with Mexico improve, if a President is elected, who wont sell guns to drug cartels?

My thinking is, that without assault weapons being put into the hands of drug cartels by the US Government, the number of murders might slow down, that would be good for tourism, which would in turn be good for Mexico's economy - By not arming the cartels as Holder and Obama have done, we might be able to make a real difference here.

Don't you think?

Update:

I've read the Fortune article - Have you read Katie Pavlich's book "Fast and Furious"; there is an absolute cover up being attempted and it reaches at least as high as Janet Napolitano, the DOJ under Holder ran the operation, but Homeland Security authorized the gun walking and both Napolitano and Holder have provably lied to congress as to when they became aware of it.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    Anyone trying to compare Obama's program with Bush's is just a plain ignorant idiot.

    Bush's program was a legitimate criminal tracking program, all guns had tracking devices, tried to follow actual cartels, and HAD the approval of the Mexican government.

    Obama has none of these. And Holder is trying to hide something..what?

    Try to sell crazy some place else...all stocked up here.

  • John
    Lv 4
    9 years ago

    Maybe we shouldnt have gun Laws in some border statres that make buying three assault rifles as easy as buying a sanwich. If you think that the President sold guns to drug cartels, you really have no grasp of what the problem is about. I will link you to the article recently published by fortune magazine about the scandal. Maybe you can ingest a little balance into your right wing diet.

    http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/06/27/f...

  • T-Bone
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    To answer your question;

    Yes, and sending in a few drones to take out the drug cartel leaders could not hurt either....

  • Hobbit
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Obama and Holder did not authorize and the DEA did not sell guns to drug crtels. It's yet one more conservative lie.

    Source(s): Fortune Magizine -- which is not exactly left-wing.
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  • ?
    Lv 5
    9 years ago

    Like Bush and Gonzales "Gun Walking" Google it

    The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) ran a series of "gunwalking" sting operations[2][3] between 2006[4] and 2011.[2][5] This was done under the umbrella of Project Gunrunner, a project intended to stem the flow of firearms into Mexico by interdicting straw purchasers and gun traffickers within the United States.[6] "Gunwalking" or "letting guns walk" was a tactic whereby the ATF allowed thousands of guns to be bought by suspected straw purchasers, who were believed to be working on behalf of Mexican drug cartel arms traffickers ("gunrunners").[7]

    The stated goal of allowing these purchases was to continue to track the firearms as they were transferred to higher-level traffickers and key figures in Mexican cartels, with the expectation that this would lead to their arrests and the dismantling of the cartels.[8][9] The tactic was questioned during the operations by a number of people, including ATF field agents and cooperating licensed gun dealers.[10][11][12][13][14] Operation Fast and Furious, by far the largest "gunwalking" probe, monitored the sale of over 2,000 firearms, of which nearly 700 were recovered as of October 20, 2011.[15] A number of straw purchasers have been arrested and indicted; however, as of October 2011, none of the targeted high-level cartel figures have been arrested.[7]

    According to a Mexican legislator, firearms trafficked by smugglers under the watch of the ATF have been found at crime scenes in Mexico, including scenes involving the death or wounding of at least 150 Mexican civilians — a statistic "which could not be independently confirmed" and the official did not say how it was calculated.[16] Guns tracked by the ATF have been found at crime scenes on both sides of the Mexico–United States border, and the scene of the death of at least one U.S. federal agent, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. The "gunwalking" operations became public in the aftermath of Terry's murder.[2] Dissenting ATF agents came forward to Congress in response.[17][18] As investigations have continued, the operations have become increasingly controversial in both countries, and diplomatic relations have been damaged as a result.[2]

    In June 2012, an investigation by Fortune magazine concluded that the ATF never intentionally allowed guns to fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels.[19] Agents interviewed during the six-month Fortune magazine investigation repeatedly asserted that only one isolated incident of "gunwalking" ever occurred, and was performed independently by ATF Agent John Dodson (who later appeared on CBS News as a whistleblower to denounce the gunwalking scandal) as part of an unauthorized solo action outside of the larger Fast and Furious operation.[19]

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Just imagine the reverse:

    The Canadian government in order to achieve domestic changes in law decides to send fully automatic assault rifles to America's worst criminals. Several hundred Americans turn up dead.

    Would you be OK with that?

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