Three amigos and gunsToronto Star: It's the 'iron river' of smuggled guns flowing from the US to both Canada and Mexico, and leaving destruction in its wake.
Mexico's ambassador to Washington has accused the US of fuelling drug-related violence in which some 6,000 people have died in the last year alone. He said there was 'direct correlation' between the overturning of a 2004 US law banning assault weapons and Mexico's upswing in seizures of those guns on its own turf...
A recent study by three international researchers suggested that two-thirds of criminally used guns seized across Canada have American origins. And last year, more than 500 restricted and prohibited weapons were confiscated by Canadian border security officials, a figure they say is only 3 per cent of the total smuggled into the country.
During the pro-gun Bush administration, there was little hope of convincing Washington to come to grips with the problem. Ironically, while President George W. Bush called for tighter border controls to fend off would-be Canadian terrorists, he had no evidence that the hypothetical terrorists had killed any Americans. Meanwhile, illegally-smuggled US guns were demonstrably injuring Canadians.
