Citizen militias have been winning parts of Mexico back from the narcotraficantes.
To do this, they’ve broken what pass for “the rules”; they’ve fought violence with violence; they’ve used weapons that are utterly illegal in Mexico (assault rifles, obtained by the same illegal means that people always use to obtain guns where guns are banned).
And it’s worked.
And it worked against a backdrop of, at best, government incompetence (they’ve never been able to make a dent in the narcotraficantes stranglehold on the area) or complicity (the narcos have bought off or co-opted vast swathes of Mexico’s government, including judges, law enforcement and the military).
So now that the government is trying to co-opt the one thing that’s worked against the cartels…
The government will go town by town to organize and recruit the new rural forces.
“This is a process of giving legal standing to the self-defense forces,” said vigilante leader Estanislao Beltran.
… is it surprising that some of the locals aren’t buying it?
But tension remained on Friday in the coastal part of the state outside the port of Lazaro Cardenas, where other “self-defense” groups plan to continue as they are, defending their territory without registering their arms. Vigilantes against the demobilization have set up roadblocks in the coastal town of Caleta.
“We don’t want them to come, we don’t recognize them,” vigilante Melquir Sauceda said of the government and the new rural police forces. “Here we can maintain our own security. We don’t need anyone bringing it from outside.”
This is precisely why the Second Amendment is, and must always be, a right of the people; because government at best is modestly capable of doing the right thing, and at worst is as bad as or worse than the problem, when it isn’t itself the problem.
I can’t understand why those people won’t agree to modest, sensible suggestions. The government isn’t stripping people of their guns. The government simply wants to know the name and address of everyone who keeps a gun to resist the narco-terrorists and what kind of gun it is. That information will be kept Strictly Confidential, there is Zero Chance the data will be sold to narco-terrorists seeking revenge. Truly.
“We don’t want them to come, we don’t recognize them,” The Mexicans don’t trust their government, and it seems the US citizen is daily losing trust in theirs.
“If I had a time machine….”
I’ve long thought about going back in time, wheedling my way into those late night meetings with quill pens furiously scratching on the parchment, and just suggest “Hey guys: when you’re writing the 2A, instead of saying “the people”, say “every individual person”. You’ll prevent a LOT of headaches down the road from those who will try to twist “the people” into “the government”. Yes, it will happen.”
Screw the butterfly effect.
We are from the government, and we are here to help
What can go wrong?
Hopefully those south of the border defending themselves will keep their “organization” to a minimum. Anyone who has ever worked on anything that required the cooperation of more than just a couple people has probably noticed that certain personality types often emerge that are not helpful to a clandestine, or otherwise discrete operation.
When that Bundy character was rounding up his “militia” volunteers, I couldn’t help but wonder how much help, as he (if he) defined it, he would actually get from all of them. Fortunately, no one had to find out.
Right now, as much as functional guns and ammo, the Mexican defenders could probably use a bunch of old top-break revolvers and busted single-shot shotguns to “turn in” to the government periodically to show their trust and cooperation. I wonder if Mr. Holder has any interest in the origins of the dreaded assault weapons?
If they are successful, I wonder if we will ever find out? At least through the MSM …
We also would have accepted, “Badges?! We don’t need no stinking badges!”
Registration leads to confiscation.
The oligarchy would rather you died at the hands of criminals than allow you to provide for your own self-defense. This is because it makes you realize what worthless pricks they are.
Carnivore; good one!