Her points were flimsy misinformation which has been rehashed by various liberals that survive on a steady diet of "gee wiz, we need to idiot proof everything".
According to Hillary:
The mexican drug cartel violence and destabilization of the border region is the fault of America because (1) our drug demand dictates their drug trade and (2) ~98% of the weapons used are provided by Americans.
re(1): The drug trade would not have achieved it's current level had border security been treated seriously. Our governments need to placate big business interests by providing free labor ($3.00 per hour to replace a $25 per hour employee might as well be free).
re(2): If our 2nd amendment right is spilling over into Mexico like a plague, then maybe we need to refer back to (1) and acknowledge that BORDER SECURITY would have to be blamed (at least the lack of border security).
[Not to digress too much, but as she has inadvertently implied, Border Security is not just to protect America from Mexico.]
Additionally, she referred to the Assault Weapon Ban as having reduced crime. This over simplification does not account for the fact that:
-Americans that legally buy assault weapons keep them. They do not spend $1400+ on a weapon in order to secretly sell it for $400 to somebody taking it across the border (or into an American city to supply gangs).
-Many of the weapons (at least the ones that you see watching the news) are similar/identical to (and probably stolen from) the Mexican military & police.
In summary, she's full of shit because she's blaming the law abiding citizens of our country for the American government's failure to secure the border. (mexicans and americans pay for this failure.) Additionally, she's full of shit for getting on TV and lying to us by implying that preventing the sale of guns to law abiding citizens is the fuel of international gun trade.
On a more humorous note, the conspiracist would probably say that she's right that 98% of the weapons come from America and she probably has seen the receipts from the CIA shipments to prove it. *lol* (sorry, had to throw that on in there at the last minute)
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