LA Times: 2 Americans and a third victim are killed in Mexico shootings

[marmar]

2 Americans and a third victim are killed in Mexico shootings
Two cars leaving a party come under fire in Ciudad Juarez. A baby in the back seat of one car survives unscathed, but her parents are dead.

By Tracy Wilkinson and Richard A. Serrano
March 15, 2010

Reporting from Mexico City and Washington


Three people connected to the U.S. Consulate in Mexico's deadliest city, Ciudad Juarez, were shot to death by men who intercepted their cars as they returned from a child's birthday party, officials said Sunday. Two of the dead, an American couple, were discovered slain in their vehicle, their uninjured baby crying in the back seat. President Obama on Sunday expressed outrage at the drive-by slayings. The three victims were killed in broad daylight Saturday near the city's border with El Paso.

Ciudad Juarez, a key entry point for drugs into the U.S., has seen a staggering increase in bloodshed as narcotics gangs battle for control of smuggling routes, turf and market share. Mexico's raging drug war has claimed thousands of lives, including those of some Americans. But this appears to be the first time in recent years that Mexican drug traffickers have attacked U.S. diplomatic personnel and their families.

In response to the escalating violence, the State Department on Sunday told employees they could send family members and other dependents home to the U.S. from six northern Mexican cities where Washington maintains consulates. It also updated its existing travel warnings, cautioning Americans about traveling to or within northern Mexican states and strongly cautioning American youth about spending their spring break in Mexico. .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-mexico-shootings15-2010mar15,0,6043277.story

[sharesunited]

1. Abundance of guns and ammo from the good ol' USA. Thanks 2nd Amendment.

[proteus_lives]

4. Refusing to blame people for their own criminal behavior.

Zero points awarded.

You should ponder on that.

[sharesunited]

5. They are accountable, and those who produce and sell the guns are too.

[Rebubula]

13. yeah....

...just go ahead and ignore the 10s of MILLIONS of gun owners that never fire their gun at anything other than paper targets.

Thousands of people are killed in Mexico every year from drug violence. They are stabbed and cut apart by machetes, tortured to death as well as shot with guns. Common denominator......STUPID DRUG WAR.

[upi402]

15. Some things are understood

and other times they need to be clearly stated, I guess. The gun issue makes us Americans lose our collective mind. Anyway, I think our drug laws need to be addressed too. I am diametrically opposed to drugs, but think the "war"on drugs is an epic fail.

[sharesunited]

21. So Oxycontin over the counter like Bayer aspirin?

[Webster Green]

22. Yes indeed! They should give us back our Quaaludes too!

WTF?! Where the hell are the Quaaludes when you really need them?

Fuck! :hippie:

[upi402]

24. in a perfect world...

;)

kidding!

[sharesunited]

25. You're right. In a perfect world, people could be trusted to self-prescribe.

[SPedigrees]

6. It's our DEA and our war on drugs, not our 2nd amendment. nt

[sharesunited]

8. Cause of death is gunshot wounds.

[Edweird]

9. So you admit gun laws don't work?

[sharesunited]

11. They need widespread application.

Nature abhors a vacuum. Water seeks its own level.

And guns flow from those jurisdictions where gun culture is coddled into the more zero tolerance areas.

Equal protection from guns and ammo from sea to shining sea.

[Edweird]

17. Either they work or they don't. Mexico has some of the strictest gun laws in the world.

They don't work.

[951-Riverside]

10. Are guns illegal to own in Mexico?

Anyone know?

[Edweird]

18. They have very strict rules. Use the 'google', it's all out there.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

19. The 2nd Amendment says, " You're welcome!"

[sharesunited]

20. At least the merry misinterpretation thereof does!

[WolverineDG]

23. Oh yeah, that's the ONLY reason the Sinaloas & the Zetas are shooting it up

:eyes:

Has absolutely NOTHING to do with the drug cartels fighting each other for access to the highways leading into the US. None whatsoever.

dg

[spanone]

2. legalize drugs. put them out of business overnight.

[Warpy]

3. No shit, Sherlock

Legalize them, undercut the black market, let the junkies get their dope in reliable dosages and not cut with shit like cement dust and baking soda, and kill the drug gangs off completely by taking away their source of income.

Yes, it means legalizing some nasty shit like meth. However, it will also have the effect of partially closing what is now a wide open pipeline of black market drugs to kids. Oh, some kids could still find the stuff, but a hell of a lot fewer of them than now do.

Just think what this would do, not only for our own crime rate, but to the drug lords in Afghanistan.

Indterdiction, overseas meddling, and punishment for anyone caught using recreational drugs is NOT WORKING. We have to try something else or what is happening in Juarez will soon be in every single city in the US as the gangs expand and carve out territory. We know this because the same thing happened during Prohibition and for the same reason.

End the insanity. End the drug war. We lost.

[SPedigrees]

7. +1000 nt

[sharesunited]

12. If you limit enforcement to confiscation of drugs and money, that can help.

Prison, i.e. loss of liberty, adds immeasurably to the risk of desperate acts.

[spanone]

16. legalize....same as prohibition. put the rumrunners out of business...pronto.

[Romulox]

14. I propose a War...on DRUGS! That will certainly solve this issue rapidly. nt