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...business owner and rancher from the Mexican border city of Juárez. But last year narcos, or drug traffickers, moved into his upscale neighborhood--punks in cowboy attire and sparkling pickup trucks buying expensive homes. Rojas and his neighbors were awakened at night or horrified in broad daylight by assault-rifle fire and the screaming of tires as cars raced away after kidnappings. One afternoon, local children watched as a pickup rammed down the door of a house, sparking a gun battle that left four people dead in the street. Out at Rojas' ranch, the situation was worse. The drug...
...sponsored by HBOMB and the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response, the discussion centered around the intersection between sexuality and space at Harvard...
...nearly 10,000 km away, in a Southeast Asian country with roughly the same population (60 million), Sir Liam might have some sympathizers. Thailand has one of the world's highest rates of alcohol consumption, and all the burgeoning social ills that accompany it: domestic violence, sexual assault, street fights, teenage binge-drinking and alcohol-related disease...
...sold assault weapons including Kalashnikov and AR15 semi-automatic rifles are responsible for the vast majority of drug related killings in Mexico. With gangs of gunmen using them to spray hundreds of bullets at their targets in ambushes, the weapons are also linked to the deaths of more than 100 civilians last year, many of whom simply had the misfortune of driving or walking close to a hit. However, in 2004 a U.S. ban on sale of assault weapons was repealed and a 2008 Supreme Court decision reinforced the second amendment, making a future ban even more difficult...
...have not backed off my belief that the assault weapons ban made sense... assault weapons, as we now know here in Mexico, are helping to fuel extraordinary violence," Obama said. "Having said that none of us are under any illusion that reinstating that ban would be easy." The President said that he would focus his efforts on getting lawmakers to approve a treaty against arms trafficking, which was signed by President Clinton in 1997 but has never been ratified by the Senate. However, American officials concede that the majority of weapons smuggled to Mexico are purchased by U.S. citizens...