Violence on the border is worse than ever:
13 die in Mexico border shootouts
Gunbattles broke out between suspected drug traffickers who fired at each other while speeding down heavily populated streets of this violent border city early Saturday, killing 13 people and wounding nine.Dead bodies scattered along a road marked one of the deadliest shootouts in Mexico’s three-year-old drug warfare.
… “Today shows we are facing a terrible war never seen before on the (U.S.-Mexico) border,” Moreno said during a news conference.
So what do we do? We issue paintguns. Yes, paintguns.
The Patrol has purchased 1,000 guns that fire non-lethal paintball or pepper pellets. The goal of a target practice session was to hit the white rag at the end of a hall with paintballs. Border Patrol agents may soon use paintballs to defend themselves against smugglers along the border due to an increase in violence.
But that’s not bad enough. Rob at Say Anything notes that “apparently human rights activists are upset because the paintballs fired by the guns may leave welts on those getting fired upon.“
