fumandomuerte wrote:Phatscotty wrote:Did you know? In Phoenix, Arizona, someone is kidnapped every 35 hours?

I'm intrigued about the origin of these guns...
Me too, actually.
It's kind of looking like this bill is all about being seen to do something, rather than actually addressing the border problems.
But anyway, my thoughts, some I've posted before in one of the many other threads on the issue in general and Arizona's law in particular:
1) Better help stabilising Mexico and other SA countries
a) More reasonable drug laws
b) Gun laws that don't allow mass purchase of military grade weaponry in places to the north of a border everyone regards as porous.
c) Fairer trade agreements and an acceptance that the US has not been the greatest friend to stability in the continent over the last 50 years (or pick your number).
2) Dealing with illegals
a) Make the system less arbitrary in its enforcement.
b) Enforce existing laws for the punishment of companies that hire illegal immigrants.
c) Acknowledge that most illegals are in the country for jobs, and contribute to the economy. Allow for them to become residents more easily, and perhaps citizens, making them tax payers too.
the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it- Albert Einstein