REAL GUN THREAT: ILLEGAL-ALIEN STREET GANGS

[Bumper64]

FBI warns that thugs acquiring 'assault weapons' to engage civilians, cops Published: 5 days ago

With the national debate focused on civilian gun control, is perhaps the biggest armed threat within the U.S. being minimized?

According to the FBI, criminal street gangs – mostly comprised of illegal aliens – are acquiring high-powered, military-style weapons to potentially engage in lethal encounters with law enforcement members and citizens alike.

Criminal street gangs are responsible for the majority of violent crimes within the U.S. and are the primary distributors of most illicit drugs, according to a 2009 report by the Justice Department’s National Drug Intelligence Center, or NDIC.

The NDIC was a task force established in 1993 to coordinate law enforcement actions to stop drug trafficking and to curb the growing threat of violent gangs in the U.S. The agency was closed by the Obama administration in June 2011.

Prior to the shutdown of the NDIC, the agency released statistics on street gangs that some found unusual.

In 2010, the agency’s National Drug Threat Assessment stated that drugs were being sold on behalf of the cartels in “more than 2,500 cities.”

Then, in the 2011 official assessment, that number was reduced to “a thousand U.S. cities” – meaning that in one year, criminal drug gangs were cleaned out of 1,500 cities resulting in a 60-percent reduction.

Dave Gibson, a columnist for Examiner.com, asked, “Where were the press releases? Why isn’t the Obama campaign talking about this rather astounding feat every day?”

The NDIC’s reports were entirely removed from the Justice Department’s website.

An attempt to access the report brings users to a page that reads, “This website is no longer maintained and may contain dated information.”

In October 2011, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement reported that in 2009 and 2010 it arrested 5,270 illegal alien gang members across all 50 states. The arrests could have accounted for some of the reductions.

However, a 2011 FBI report draws a far dimmer picture of the nature of criminal gangs operating domestically.

States the report: “There are an estimated 1.4 million active street, prison and outlaw motorcycle gang members in more than 33,000 gangs operating in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.”

The report notes those numbers reflect an increase from 2009 figures due “primarily to more comprehensive reporting from law enforcement and enhanced gang recruiting efforts.”

The FBI report further warns that gang members are acquiring high-powered, military-style weapons and equipment, which, the report says, poses “a significant threat because of the potential to engage in lethal encounters with law enforcement and citizens alike.”

A 2008 report by the Center for Immigration Studies found that gang investigators in Virginia estimate that 90 percent of the members of MS-13, the most notorious immigrant gang, are illegal immigrants.

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[Liljohn]

Good post, thanks Bump.

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[dontlop]

this is all true but see joe biden and obama are going to write it down on a piece of paper that says your not allowed to do that .. so it will stop as soon as obama signs his name on a piece of paper and they put it in a file cabnet

[desimo]

This post is a no brainer. The morons of Washington D.C. need to admit this fact. They do not want to admit that the street gangs are the problem. Gun laws will not effect the street gangs except for making their job easier by disarming law abiding citizens.

[Snatcher]

I live in South Tx 150 miles from the mexican border. I've yet to see a street gang here in the state walk into a movie complex,church,highschool,elementry school or mall gunning down helpless men ,women and children. Most of these gangs are killing each other not civilians. Oh and yes i do believe in the 2nd Amendment ..Yes i do own a few firearms....Yes I do carry a firearm everyday as part of my job and have a conceal carry permit.

Edited January 14, 2013 by Snatcher

[Sage449]

How is it that WA DC is so myopic? QUOTE According to the FBI, criminal street gangs – mostly comprised of illegal aliens – are acquiring high-powered, military-style weapons to potentially engage in lethal encounters with law enforcement members and citizens alike. Criminal street gangs are responsible for the majority of violent crimes within the U.S. and are the primary distributors of most illicit drugs, according to a 2009 report by the Justice Department’s National Drug Intelligence Center, or NDIC. UNQUOTE

What amazes me is that a piece of signed paper is a fruitless shield against such as noted above - and our "friends" in DC don't realize they can be popped off just as easily as Joe Public on the street. That piece of paper won't protect anyone - the thugs don't care and they don't believe in laws. I vote to round them up and send them to Afghanistan, Sudan and places where war is going on and let them fight for the right to come back to the U.S. Let's see how tough they are then - and who wins.

[dog53]

These young people are young warriors. They are used to danger and dealing with the cartels of Mexico. Yeah their Kids. But they are kids that do not run and have been trained with AR platform rifles since they were 9. They will stand their ground and fight. Yep the southwest is about to become the wild wild west again. I pity the citizen who has to go up against them with just a hand gun because our fearless leader says we are not responsible enough to own an AR. 99.9999% of the time the hand gun will lose.

Edited January 14, 2013 by dog53

[wpsmit]

These young people are young warriors. They are used to danger and dealing with the cartels of Mexico. Yeah their Kids. But they are kids that do not run and have been trained with AR platform rifles since they were 9. They will stand their ground and fight. Yep the southwest is about to become the wild wild west again. I pity the citizen who has to go up against them with just a hand gun because our fearless leader says we are not responsible enough to own an AR. 99.9999% of the time the hand gun will lose.

Can you say fast and furious?