UPI/Kevin DietschIn a speech to a joint session of Congress, Mexican President Calderon spoke against guns in the United States and also offered blistering comments about the Arizona immigration law. Calderon, who obviously has not read the Arizona Statues in question, repeated Obama's statements that the statutes use racial profiling as a basis for law enforcement.
Many Democrats present applauded Calderon's input.
Soap Box Ravings opinion is the dissing continues. President Obama, President Calderon and all of the applauding Democrats have shown their lack of respect for Congress and the United States of America.
Neither Obama or Calderon will admit that many of the weapons used by criminals in Mexico were either stolen Mexican military weapons or purchased on the black worldwide market. Many of those weapons are fully automatic weapons. I challenge anyone reading this to locate and purchase a fully automatic weapon in this country.
The weapons that many Mexicans do buy illegally in our country and take back to Mexico are common hunting rifles, revolvers and semiautomatic pistols they use for their own self defense.
It is illegal to purchase them and take them to Mexico, but the Mexican government does not allow their ordinary people to own weapons for self defense. However, again, they are not full automatic weapons.
Neither Obama and Calderon seem to have read, nor do they intend to read the Arizona Statute they are complaining about. They do not interested in allowing facts to get in the way of their personal political gain.
