I was a bit surprised by this, because as you see if you'll read it, the authors didn't call for a ban on semiautomatic rifles to be a part of fighting the drug cartels. I don't know if you'd call that progress, or just an attempt to hide the fact that a ban is the ultimate goal, but at any rate you still don't see any talk of even maybe thinking about studying the possibility of legalization -- in fact, you see the authors advocate funneling even MORE money to the Mexican corruptocrats by fully funding the Merida Initiative, thereby paving the way for yet more bona-fide military weaponry to go to the cartels. This one line from the end did really rub me the wrong way, though...
...it is time that the United States stops asking these courageous people to shoulder our share of the burden and responsibility for this problem.
Indeed. Hell, they won't even shoulder their own share of the responsibility. They just keep channeling the seagulls in Finding Nemo -- "BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN!" -- and refuting arguments no one's made by saying stupid shit like "The Second Amendment was never meant to arm foreign criminal groups." I'm sure the Founding Fathers would have advised us not to arm criminal regimes like the ones in charge in Mexico City too, but still our government does it...and to add insult to injury, they do it with the fruits of our labor. And still they call on us to accept less freedom. Cork-soaking ingrates...
"...the day is coming, Armageddon is here...inferno's coming, can we surviiiiiive the blitzkrieg..."
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