Quote Originally Posted by ray1970 View Post
Wonder if our government would be more likely to support our 2nd ammendment rights if people were targeting and killing our citizens at random on the streets here?
Probably not, but the threat from our southern border is real. Mexican citizenry are not our enemy, but their country's organized crime and corrupt government definitely are.

If any of you have time, read the works of Charles Bowden (who recently passed). Our fight for our southern border may not be religious in nature, but it will be just as fierce as any religious conflict in the near future.

Revenues for drug trafficking in Mexico has exceeded revenues for oil over the last 3 years. Mexico's entire economy is dependent on trafficking now. And those running the show will press and fight to maintain that.

I believe that we'll be facing the same security issues as Israel in the coming years. I hope that isn't the case, but border states (New Mexico for example) are quickly rising in their murder rate and violent crime per capita.

I wouldn't say that it is exactly fair to compare our border issues to Israel's, but I believe it is going to get bad before it gets good. Money is every bit as powerful of a god as Allah.