A Nation's Duty to Contain Bad Guys

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Given the above, what is your opinion of this? GEN McCafferty is hardly an anti-US source.



Our second amendment and shady dealers are supplying an insurgency in Mexico. Seems the USA under your definition is not sovreign and is allowing direct support to narco-trafficers. Under the above, Mexico is authorized cross-border raids?

That article was a factually flawed anti-gun piece which "cherry-picks" poor data. In other words, it's pretty much bull####. Despite what the leftist rabidly anti-gun media types say, you really can't get military arms from legal gun dealers in the US. Far more likely they are getting them shipped as scrap metal from the Far- or Middle East in 20 foot containers. They are a lot cheaper that way, as well.

You could also say that the Mexican gov't has de facto declared war on the US for their intentional flooding of the US market with illegal free labor and drugs.

But the pragmatic piece kicks in, where the Mexican gov't couldn't really get away with cross-border raids, (thought their military and police forces have invaded the US several times in the past few years, with Mexican gov't officials basically winking and nodding at the perpetrators) and the US couldn't afford to rebuild that crap-hole after we invaded them. Which is why nation-states tend not to hold other nation-states' feet to the fire when it comes to retaliating for safe-havens.

Edited to add: I just now saw that McCafferty wrote that. Well, just because he is a retired General doesn't mean he actually knows his head from his butt when it comes to weapons trade.