Reply #16: I seriously doubt this was a tracking operation gone awry.

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Hell, at one time, there was a gang in Chicago who put the word out that for 2 million dollars they would commit terrorist acts on US soil. The ATF sold them stinger missiles (their plan was to shoot down an airliner on approach into O'Hare) that were deactivated but had GPS transponders concealed within. Had the F-Troop really wanted to track these guns, they could have done something similar-particularly since technology has advanced quite a bit since the mid 80s.

And given the press and statements from government mouthpieces prior to the discovery of their dirty little secret, there was a call for another AWB as well as other restrictions because of Mexico's insistence that all their gun problems came from the US. So the usual anti-rights politicians jumped on the bandwagon to try and further infringe on lawful gun owners, using the cartel violence as an excuse.

If Mexico is so concerned about guns coming in via smugglers from the US, my suggestion would be for them to erect a fence the length of their border with the US. Little chance of that happening, however, since Mexico's economy seems to be driven primarily by illegal immigrants sending money back to Mexico and Mexican cartels sending drugs north to the US. But instead of dealing with their own problems internally, Calderon had the balls to demand that the US violate the second amendment. Which would disarm LEGAL gun owners in the US, but do absolutely nothing to stop the cartel violence, and may even lead to the cartel violence spilling even further into the US.

I have family in Benson and Douglas and Yuma, all right down near the border, and they don't dare leave the house to take care of their ranch work without going in pairs and armed with long guns. There have been a couple of occasions when those long guns saved their lives when they stumbled on a group of drug mules who were laid up on their land.

Not too long ago, a couple was on a lake on jet skis in Texas that straddles the border and they came across a boatload of cartel drug runners. They tried to escape, but the husband was shot and killed and his wife barely escaped with her life. They did nothing to provoke the attack other than having the misfortune to cross paths with a group of piece of shit terrorists-and if you think terrorist is an overblown description, you obviously don't pay attention to the news coming out of Mexico. Just a couple of days ago, a female blogger was found stripped, disemboweled and decapitated, and a note was left with the body warning that this would be the fate of anyone else who interfered with their operations.

Or the corpses cut into pieces, the skin peeled off their skulls, their genitals cut off and signs of perimortem torture. Things like blowtorch burns and electrical burns. There are whole towns taken over by the cartels-the Mexican army is outgunned and the citizens themselves are disarmed hostages. Yep, Mexico is a gun control paradise-an example of what happens when only the outlaws have guns.

How anyone who purports to support liberty and human rights can champion removing a population's means of self defense doesn't explode from the cognitive dissonance, I'll never know.

Fortunately, thanks to the speed with which information spreads via the net and cell phones and social media, the anti-rights and pro-criminal safety assholes keep finding themselves outmaneuvered by citizens who cherish ALL of the rights ensconced in the Constitution. And by the way, those amendments aren't rights granted by the state-they are limits to governmental powers.

Again, hopefully heads will roll over this gunwalker goatfuck, and those responsible for it should serve prison time-either here or in Mexico, considering that Mexico is the injured party. IIRC, a gentleman 9 or 10 years ago got caught crossing into the Mexico with a single round of ammunition that was under his seat. He served 3 years in Mexican jail before he was released. I hope the responsible parties for this fiasco serve commensurate prison time for their crimes.