Three U.S. citizens killed in Mexico attacks

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16. "you mentioned on a post a while back why would someone in a rural area need an assault rifle"

I never said exactly that at all. I've said I don't know why you need half-a-dozen of them, or why everybody needs one. I also don't think you couldn't mount the same sort of defense with other weapons. You need to understand where we in the city are coming from with our objections to the current system...

The drug cartels are not going to stop. All we can do is hope to inhibit their growth at this point, legalizing all drugs won't stop the flow. Legalizing just marijuana will make it more expensive for them to conduct the rest of their business and allow our enforcement to be more effective. Marijuana is a complete different category of substance from most of the others - no one has ever died from marijuana, most people don't steal to support their marijuana habit.

You also need to realize that our weapons are going South into illegal hands, that's what Fast and Furious was trying to stop. There's a difference between our current system of gun control and a more restrictive and flexible system like most other Westernized states have that allow for exceptions to the rule.