Hopfully the violence in Mexico does not spill over

[philip964]

In today's paper there was another story about murders in Mexico. There must have been five separate tragic stories.

They happen so often, with each incident out doing the others, that it seems hardly news anymore. But the detail in this one caught my eye.

http://www.startribune.com/world/116857598.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

A state police official and his wife were killed on the way to work. It was not the drug gangs, but the carjacking gangs.

At the scene they found 100 9mm and 7.62mm shell casings.

100 shell casings to murder two people.

If this starts moving across the border, my six shot .380 does not seem enough anymore.

[Dave2]

100 shell casings to murder two people.

If this starts moving across the border, my six shot .380 does not seem enough anymore.

The FN 5.7's flush-fitting magazines hold 20 rounds, and the (barely) extended mags hold 30. If you're into carbines, the PS90 mags can hold 50 rounds if you get the right kind.

I think I might get some body armor first though, if I was really expecting to be in a firefight that long. Or maybe move.

[TexasGal]

The ICE agent that was murdered has stimulated our LE to crack down on the Zeta gang here in the U.S. They are hitting them all over, collecting their money and drugs. I am waiting to see what the cartels do in response. The idea is now we will make an example of what happens when you shoot one of our agents. I say go get em, but I wish the average ranchers and citizens along our borders were given equal importance. Why are their lives worth less? Will the cartels just decide as long as they leave our agents alone, they can continue with business as usual since that is the only thing that seems to have actually caused our LE to really rise up and strike at them here? Heck, the ATF even gifted them thousands of nice new assault rifles.

http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/022411 ... in-America

[fulano]

The ICE agent that was murdered has stimulated our LE to crack down on the Zeta gang here in the U.S. They are hitting them all over, collecting their money and drugs. I am waiting to see what the cartels do in response. The idea is now we will make an example of what happens when you shoot one of our agents. I say go get em, but I wish the average ranchers and citizens along our borders were given equal importance. Why are their lives worth less? Will the cartels just decide as long as they leave our agents alone, they can continue with business as usual since that is the only thing that seems to have actually caused our LE to really rise up and strike at them here? Heck, the ATF even gifted them thousands of nice new assault rifles.

http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/022411 ... in-America

Yep. I think it has now spilled over.

Another realtime source http://www.borderlandbeat.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[McKnife]

I got an email a few days ago with pictures from a cartel hit and a warning to stay out of Mexico for Summer/Spring Break vacations... I'm pretty hard to shock and these pictures were shocking... dismembered bodies and parts, faces literally carved off like processing a deer... they spelled out words with the victims' intestines on the ground. The cartels are not human... they are animals!

I also saw the evidence sheet from the ATF bust a few days ago and apparently there were several 5.7's on the shopping list for the illegals. Looks like it's becoming more popular.

[WildBill]

This violence is more wide spread than is being reported and is not confined to border towns. I know people with family in Mexico who have told me this.

[fulano]

You can type in the following link to get an "on the ground" graphic look of what is going on all across Mexico. I won't paste the actual link because often it contains graphic photos. I have many friends in latin america. One is an 80+ year old retired ag teacher who remembers all the stories told to him by his family of the civil war there after the revolution and he thinks it is worse due to the fire power of the 21st century.

www dot blogdelnarco dot com

We need a Department of Defense in place of our Department of War. A $1 trillion Interstate Highway Zero (IH-0) from Brownsville to San Diego visible from outer-space would help. Its been done before.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[VoiceofReason]

It “spilled over” 25 years ago.

Very few killings make national news. Most just make the local news because they are not mass killings and are just written off as “drug related” without being linked to the cartels in Mexico.