Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Sunday that she doubts a new ban on assault-style weapons in the United States would help curtail the violence spawned by warring drug cartels in Mexico.
“I’m skeptical that it would, in part because there are large stockpiles of those assault weapons already now in Mexico,” she said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “That’s a congressional action...It would be very controversial. And we need to act now.”
“We can’t wait for any legislative action,” she added. “We’ve got to work now, and actually do more to enforce the existing law, which we can do, because it is illegal to export arms from the United States into Mexico.” - Politico
This is the first time that I can remember that I agree with DHS. But, I do in this case. Instead of trying to make more laws and limit our Constitutional Rights, just get down and up the enforcement of laws that are already on the books.
If we would substantially increase our inspections at the border of goods that are coming in and going out of our borders, then that would go further toward stopping the drug violence than anything else that we are doing. Improve the enforcement of our current laws, there is no need for additional legislation.
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