Kamala Harris appeared on CBS News' “60 Minutes'' after it was revealed that she apparently deceptively edited an October interview that prevented her from meaningfully helping avoid another presidential campaign failure. has moved on to curating stories about the Mexican government, another apparent lost cause.
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episode “60 Minutes,” which aired Sunday, advanced the Mexican government's preferred line on its failure to crack down on gang violence and vilified Americans as “the bad guys in this dynamic.” This claim was brought by a foreign country against an American firearms manufacturer. case The case is scheduled to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in February.
In the process of attributing Mexico's misdeeds to the Second Amendment, CBS News inadvertently fueled the argument that gun control laws are ineffective at deterring violent crime.
On the other hand, Article 10:
mexican constitution It gives Mexicans the right to own guns, but they must overcome many hurdles to legally obtain guns, and there is only one gun store in the country where they can buy guns directly in Mexico.
According to According to a 2023 Association of the Americas/Council of the Americas report, Mexican lawmakers drastically restricted this constitutional right in the wake of the civil war in the late 1960s, making open and concealed carry mandatory in most cases. deprived the people of the right to banning the personal use of various types of firearms and calibers; Gun ownership is subject to both a one-year permit from the National Defense Secretariat and membership in a shooting club. To obtain a gun permit, applicants must be at least 18 years old, have past military experience, and have evidence of mental capacity to operate a weapon. Mexicans reportedly cannot legally own more than 10 firearms or purchase ammunition for a weapon in a caliber they do not own.
“I'm not going to advocate restricting my rights just because other countries want to shift the blame.”
Despite these laws, criminals in Mexico have been heating up for over six years, causing a trend.
30,000 murders a yearthere are an estimated 16.8 million guns in civilian ownership.
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segment Sunday's episode of “60 Minutes” details the lengthy process required to legally obtain a firearm in Mexico.
“There's only one gun store in Mexico, in the middle of a heavily guarded military base in Mexico City,” the narrator says. “Customers must show proof of passing psychological tests, drug tests and extensive background checks before entering the store. The store sells about 1,000 guns a month, most of them shotguns. Guns, small-caliber rifles, handguns.”
“What civilians can't buy here are the cartels' preferred weapons. They aren't sold legally anywhere in Mexico,” the narrator adds.
While the obvious point of the episode was to blame Mexico's gun violence on weapons imported from the United States, critics argued that CBS News has shown that gun control laws do little to reduce violent crime. He pointed out that it helped prove that.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah)
tweeted“Mexico has to be the safest and least violent country in the world. Oh, wait…”
1 user on X,
quotation The city with the highest murder rate in the world answered“This gun control policy has been very successful, but only nine of the top 10 cities with the most murders are in Mexico.”
Sean Davis, CEO of Federalist,
I wrote“Mexico is definitely known for its lack of murders, so clearly that policy is working.”
“You only have to look at Mexico's extremely low crime rates to see that this approach is working.”
said Jeremy Redfern, press secretary for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Julio Rosas of Blaze News
noticed The point of the “60 Minutes'' article was to “blame the United States and the Second Amendment for the violence in Mexico. I'm not advocating restricting rights.”
The show, based on claims by former Mexican President López Obrador and others, suggested that restricting American gun sales would be something of a panacea.
Jonathan Lowy, an American lawyer representing Mexico in a lawsuit against a U.S. gun manufacturer, said:
said “We need to stop it at the source, because all of these problems are caused by the supply of American guns to the cartels,” he said on “60 Minutes.”
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