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| Mommy, why are they shooting at us again? |
| 2009-04-03 |
| Life in Tijuana goes on. The buses run, people go to work, kids go to school, traffic still jams the city's arteries. But something has changed in the last year or so: the city's residents go about their day-to-day business with a gnawing apprehension, haunted by an unpleasant feeling that something horrible may happen at any moment. The sensation is similar to what you feel when you narrowly avoid a car crash or catch a child just in time to avoid disaster -- relief that it did not happen, distress that it almost did, dread that next time you may not be so lucky. The Tijuana state of mind has become popularly known as "the psychosis." Anyone who lives in Tijuana knows what you're talking about when you use the term... More at link. It's a long article. It does repeat the oft heard claim that 90 percent of guns in Mexico come from the U.S. Fox New among others point out that it's only 90 percent of confiscated guns that are traceable because they have serial numbers that come from the U.S. while the vast majority of the guns in Mexico are smuggled through Guatamaula and originate in places like China, Israel and South Africa. I don't own a gun. I never thought I'd need one. But this little war is within walking distance of my home. OK, it'd be a long walk but you could do it in a day. In a car it'd take half an hour. I have to wonder if the narco-terrorists would be so brazen if ordinary Mexican citizens were allowed to bear arms and shoot back. Guys like John Kerry and Phillipe Calderone want us to trust our defense to them. I don't trust them and, as we can see, it isn't working very well for the Mexicans. |
| Posted by:Ebbang Uluque6305 |