Why does anyone need an assault rifle?

[scruff]

Here's why:

How a Group of Civilians Took Up Arms to Fight Back Against Drug Cartels When the Gov’t Could No Longer Protect Them
Nov. 8, 2013 5:59pm Associated Press

TEPALCATEPEC, Mexico (AP) — For lime grower Hipolito Mora, it was time to organize and pick up arms when a packing company controlled by a brutal drug cartel refused to buy his fruit. For Bishop Miguel Patino Velazquez, it was seeing civilians forced to fight back with their own guns that made him speak out. For Leticia, a lime picker too afraid of retribution to give her last name, it was the day she saw a taxi driver kidnapped in front of his two young children that convinced her to join those taking the law into their own hands.

In this Nov. 5 photo, armed men from to a self-defense group create a checkpoint in the town of Las Colonias, Mexico. Several communities have created their own self-defense groups after a pseudo-religious cartel, known as the “Knights Templar,” has for years demanded protection payments from cattlemen, lime growers and other businesses. The groups say they are free of the cartel in several municipalities of the Tierra Caliente, or “Hot Land,” which earned its moniker for the scorching weather but whose name has also come to signify criminal activity. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

In Mexico they call it “the drop that makes the glass overflow,” and it came at different points for the people living for years in fear of the brutal Knights Templar in the western Valley of Apatzingan, an emerald green tapestry of orchards bordered by blue-gray peaks.

“We lived in bondage, threatened by organized crime,” said Leticia, 40, who ekes out a living picking fruit and selling chicken on the side. “They wanted to treat people like animals.”

Eight months after locals formed self-defense groups, they say they are free of the cartel in six municipalities of the Tierra Caliente, or “Hot Land,” which earned its moniker for the scorching weather but whose name has also come to signify criminal activity. What’s more, the self-defense group leaders, who are clearly breaking Mexican law by picking up military-style arms to fight criminals, say the federal government is no longer arresting them, but recruiting them to help federal forces identify cartel members.

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More here: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013...-protect-them/

[Palerider]

Too bad Holder and company weren't arming these Mexicans.

[PocketProtector]

Yep and with our open door policy for the drug cartels, it's just a matter of time before we're fighting the same battle. Most of our cities are already there or really really close
Thank you BHO

[Bellerophon]

You mean armed citizens deter crimes and criminals?

You don't say....

Funny most of mainstream America didn't learn this lesson during the Rodney King Riots in Los Angeles 20 years ago.

See for yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgCiC6qTtjs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRc_FlmW2Jc

[cdi]

"...if God had not meant them to be sheared; why did He make them sheep?"

[animalmother85]

"...if God had not meant them to be sheared; why did He make them sheep?"

Oh I like that one. Taking that on the road.