Mexico AG: US Must Do More to Stop Guns

Mar 28, 11:57 PM EDT
By IOAN GRILLO
Associated Press Writer

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico's attorney general on Wednesday demanded U.S. authorities do more to stop guns and drug money from heading south and fueling the drug violence in Mexico that left more 2,000 dead last year.

Eduardo Medina Mora told a business forum that the vast majority of arms used by the soldiers of drug cartels, including assault rifles and grenades, are smuggled from the United States.

"It's truly absurd that a person can get together 50 to 100 high powered arms, grenade launchers, fragmentation grenades, and can transport this cargo to our country," Medina Mora said. "It's a task that needs a much more decided and determined effort from the U.S. government, and it's one of the demands we have put on the table."

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, obtuse means "lacking sharpness or quickness of sensibility or intellect". Mexico wants the US to do all it can to stop the illegal smuggling of guns but Mexico, in turn, does all it can to promote and encourage the illegal invasion and violation of US sovereignty by millions of its own citizens. Clearly Mr. Medina Mora embodies the true meaning of obtuse! -mm