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Anthropology has evolved from digging up old bones and pottery shards to now being used to challenge our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
Jusionyte’s background is intriguing considering the strict gun control imposed by the Soviet regime to suppress freedom. This control extended over the 300 million people of the USSR, including those in Lithuania and other countries under Soviet rule.
Jusionyte raises the question of why Mexico cannot address its own gun control issues and solve the problems within its borders.
Mexico’s Strict Gun Controls
Jusionyte discusses the prevalence of criminal violence in Mexico, where thousands of individuals go missing annually, crimes often go unreported, and law enforcement colludes with organized crime. She emphasizes the impact of American guns on Mexico’s drug trade and criminal activities.
Jusionyte suggests that Mexico’s strict gun laws contribute to the reliance on American firearms by criminal organizations, highlighting the disparity in gun regulations between the two countries.
She proposes that Mexico should consider adopting its version of the Second Amendment to empower law-abiding citizens to defend themselves.
The response to a cartel thug kidnapping a family member would be reminiscent of Steve McQueen in “The Magnificent Seven” when facing off against the bandit Calvera: “We deal in lead.”
Mexican Lawsuit Against Gun Makers
She then referenced an article I wrote last September in The Epoch Times about the case in U.S. federal court titled “Estados Unidos Mexicanos v. Smith & Wesson Brands Inc., et al.” If successful, this lawsuit could potentially halt all gun production and sales in the United States, effectively revoking the Second Amendment.
In my September article, I criticized California Attorney General Rob Bonta for supporting the Mexican government’s lawsuit against gun manufacturers. Despite the case being dismissed, the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in January found that Mexico’s lawsuit had merit and remanded it back to the lower court for further proceedings.
However, with the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 Bruen decision affirming the personal Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, it is unlikely that the Mexican lawsuit will succeed unless there are changes in the judiciary.
Ms. Jusionyte’s assertion that stopping the flow of firearms from the U.S. to Mexico would reduce the northbound flow of drugs is naive. If cartels cannot obtain guns from the U.S., they will acquire them from other sources like communist China. The book “Blood Money” by Peter Schweizer sheds light on China’s deliberate strategy to export deadly devices, including switch devices that allow handguns to fire continuously. This export of weapons is part of China’s plan to weaken the United States and fuel social division.
If the U.S. court system upholds the Mexican lawsuit, American families could be left defenseless, while China continues to arm criminal gangs.
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