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Their Gun Problem is Our Fault?

I'm not doing a Weekly Bias this week because starting tomorrow I'll be in meetings for several days at the company where I work. But that doesn't mean that I can't report on a bit of media bias this morning... From KGBT TV (TX):

Texas Federal officials say weapons smugglers, drug dealers and illegal immigrants are taking advantage of Texas laws.
The feds say the smugglers are using middlemen to buy the guns illegally because Texas doesn't require any state registration to purchase a firearm. That makes it relatively easy for someone to buy a gun for a person who's forbidden to own one in a deal known as a "straw purchase."

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms says exact data on such purchases aren't available. But A-T-F spokeswoman Franceska (fran-CHEHS'-kah) Perot (pur-ROH') says strict Mexican gun laws have created an active black market for American weapons.

Secondly, if Mexicans are taking advantage of straw-purchases to obtain firearms, it is only because the Mexican government has determined that while their country is overrun by drug dealers and criminals and corrupt police officials, their subjects are not entitled to the means to protect themselves. Well too fucking bad if their citizens sneak across the border to obtain some protection for themselves.

The "Feds" as this writer puts it shouldn't even be concerned if guns are flowing into Mexico. It's not their business to care about the problems of another country unless that country threatens the U.S. I don't see President Fox and his cronies giving a rat's ass that drugs are flowing from Mexico into the U.S.

It was only a few short years ago that Connecticut banned condoms. They couldn't be sold in stores so Connecticut residents had to drive to NY or MA to obtain them. How silly was that?

Massachusetts residents constantly drive across the border to New Hampshire to buy stuff because NH has no sales tax. Is that a problem for NH? Quite the opposite, it's allowed cities such as Nashua to grow into retail giant meccas. The problem is Massachusetts'. Maybe they should consider scrapping their own sales tax and cut their spending to reasonable levels.

Mexico denies their people the right to self-defense. Those people will -- rightly -- seek it where they can. But that's a problem for the Mexican government, not the U.S. government. To blame the State of Texas for "a problem" in another nation is just plain bullshit.

By the way, how stupid do the writers at KGBT4 TV think we all are that they have to put the phonetic pronunciation of a name into the news story? If I was a viewer of their station I'd be truly insulted and I'd let them know it. Talk about a condescending and derogatory attitude towards your consumers!