Conversation with a Mexican School Teacher, Gun Control, Maybe...
As a docent for a museum in the Tucson area, I had a strange and interesting conversation today with a woman, a mother, a school teacher, a Mexican from deep in the interior of Mexico.
She and her husband brought her two tiny children up into Tucson for a long weekend to vacation and relax, as she put it, to get away from the violence of the drug cartels down in here area of Mexico. I didn't pry as to her locale but her stories were hair raising.
What she told me was breath taking. What peaked my interst was this sentence, " My children are safer here than they are in Mexico."
Her English is perfect. You would think she taught English here. She actually speaks our language better than some Mexican-Americans born here, teaching school here, let alone, some of our citizens. She teaches young Mexican and American students whose families live in Mexico and attend their schools.
She told me that many murders are commited by gun runners who buy firearms at Arizona gun shows, loaded into cars here and then are run through the border gates at break-neck speeds into Mexico. The Mexican police find the car later, stripped of guns, hidden discreetly in the car, the drivers hired by the cartels murdered, and the guns in the hands of the Mexican drug outlaws bent on killing their people.
It's time for checks at Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and California gun shows, no matter what. To hear her tell it, that's where the hole is, HER KIDS are dodging bullets down in Mexico because of guns leaking through border gates bought by straw buyers. It has become too easy. She was very courteous about it, trying not to insult me, but that's what it came down to, we have to take responsibility, check and double check who is buying what, how many times, at gun shows.
I am a big believer of the Second Amendment and have been so for decades. But in one casual conversation with a 30 year old Mexican mother, a school teacher with two knee high kids who tells me in an unplanned conversation that her kids are safer HERE than in Mexico, I now know what the problem is.
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She and her husband brought her two tiny children up into Tucson for a long weekend to vacation and relax, as she put it, to get away from the violence of the drug cartels down in here area of Mexico. I didn't pry as to her locale but her stories were hair raising.
What she told me was breath taking. What peaked my interst was this sentence, " My children are safer here than they are in Mexico."
Her English is perfect. You would think she taught English here. She actually speaks our language better than some Mexican-Americans born here, teaching school here, let alone, some of our citizens. She teaches young Mexican and American students whose families live in Mexico and attend their schools.
She told me that many murders are commited by gun runners who buy firearms at Arizona gun shows, loaded into cars here and then are run through the border gates at break-neck speeds into Mexico. The Mexican police find the car later, stripped of guns, hidden discreetly in the car, the drivers hired by the cartels murdered, and the guns in the hands of the Mexican drug outlaws bent on killing their people.
It's time for checks at Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and California gun shows, no matter what. To hear her tell it, that's where the hole is, HER KIDS are dodging bullets down in Mexico because of guns leaking through border gates bought by straw buyers. It has become too easy. She was very courteous about it, trying not to insult me, but that's what it came down to, we have to take responsibility, check and double check who is buying what, how many times, at gun shows.
I am a big believer of the Second Amendment and have been so for decades. But in one casual conversation with a 30 year old Mexican mother, a school teacher with two knee high kids who tells me in an unplanned conversation that her kids are safer HERE than in Mexico, I now know what the problem is.
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