Hillary's Mexico visit results in a chorus of calls for gun confiscation and new restrictions in U.S.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's call for assault weapon ban in U.S. gets blasted by gun lobby
It's all our fault, Hillary tells Mexico on drug wars in offical visit
BY Richard Sisk
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
Thursday, March 26th 2009, 8:07 PM
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_worl ... _call.html
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Yup...it's those damn gun shows allowing private parties to sell bazookas and grenades without a background check and proper I.D...WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Clinton called for a new assault weapon ban in the U.S. on Thursday in hopes of cutting off arms flowing to Mexican drug gangs - and was immediately blasted by the gun lobby.
Clinton was naive in thinking that "if Americans give up their freedoms, that it's somehow going to affect the operations of the Mexican drug cartels," said National Rifle Association spokesman Andrew Arulanandam.
On her two-day visit to Mexico, Clinton told MSNBC it'd be "a very heavy lift" to get Congress to take up the issue.
Under tight security yesterday in Monterrey, Mexico, Clinton said the drug-related violence along the border was "intolerable for honest, law-abiding citizens of Mexico, my country or of anywhere people of conscience live."
"We can worry about what's coming north," Clinton said, "but the Mexican people are worried about what's coming south: assault weapons, bazookas, grenades."
Mexican officials and newspapers hailed Clinton's blunt admissions that the "insatiable" appetite for drugs in the U.S. was contributing to the violence.
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