Pubdate: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 Source: El Paso Times (TX) Copyright: 2010 Diana Prickett Contact: http://www.elpasotimes.com/townhall/ci_14227323 Website: http://www.elpasotimes.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/829 Author: Diana Prickett BLAME GUN BAN The unending violence in Juarez should be blamed squarely on Mexico's strict gun-control laws. The good, disarmed, law-abiding citizens of Juarez are literally caught in a crossfire between criminals of the drug cartels and the armed police and military, some elements of which are also criminalized. Permit the good citizenry of Juarez to arm themselves, and within a year they will liberate themselves, neighborhood by neighborhood, from all criminals and their unending violence. Juarez today is the perfect example of what strict gun-control laws really mean. One could say the same regarding what Hitler's strict gun-control laws eventually meant for the disarmed European Jews. Strict gun-control laws always set the stage for vast bloodbaths because those laws cannot prevent excesses by criminals or criminalized governments acting out against the citizenry. Our Founding Fathers understood the God-given right of individual free men and women to defend themselves and their families against anti-human criminals of every kind when they wrote the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Perhaps the modern rallying cry of U.S. Second Amendment advocates should be "Remember Juarez." Diana Prickett Las Cruces - --- MAP posted-by: Jo-D