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