The UK daily newspaper Telegraph is running a story on their web site that cowboys with AK-47s are patrolling the U.S./Mexican border.
They show a landowner with an AK-47 patrolling his property in southern Arizona and talk about the recent vigilante Minuteman Project, where thousands of volunteers headed to the border to record and detain illegals coming across from Mexico.
"Welcome to the Wild West 2005, where modern-day cowboys still guard their land from interlopers - but using AK47s and four-wheel drives instead of Winchester rifles and horses." What other types of guns are they using?
While it's certain that some people are using upgraded weapons to fight the gangs coming across, not all of them are.
The story does a good job of stereotyping landowners in the Southwest as gun-toting maniacs, when it's a minority of landowners who have thus armed themselves.
Here's the story.
Having said that, the report was absolutely correct in saying that gangs coming across the border will fire on anyone that gets in their way and that lawlessness is on the rise along the border. It needs to be dealt with.
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