The gun was stolen from a federal agent, apparently who had never heard of the "don't display **** that is important to you, like your CDs and guns" rule for his or her car, while left alone.
Guns are guns. That is another question all together.
Regarding sanctuary cities, while I recognize the fact that deportation can sometimes make situations worse (kind of like sending a welfare mother an hour or two each way to work for Dick Clark's American Bandstand Cafe, while your child has to be left relatively unsupervised only to end up shooting and killing another kid at school), I think the idea is generally stupid.
I personally have nothing against Mexicans. I think they're fine people, most often very courteous, and designers of outstanding cuisine. But something has to be done about Mexican (specifically) immigration in this country.
It's not even the crime that concerns me. Crime is crime. Any ******* can commit a crime. But Mexican immigration to this country is fundamentally different than anything we've ever experienced. No other group to immigrate to this country (indigenous people are pretty much all dead and can't immigrate here anyhow because they're already here) can say it has "legitimate" claims to a good portion of this nation's rightfully earned land. It doesn't help matters either that they're basically ghettosizing themselves in our American Southwest.
While I think our govt. is too strong to allow Hispanicization to reclaim the West, I don't particularly want to flirt with the notion.
Give current illegals a simplified pathway to citizenship and tax payer status, but clamp down like a mother****er on the border. It needs to be highly regulated from now on. Like some scholars have pointed out, the diversity of American immigrants in our past allowed for assimilation and integration, because no one immigrant group was ever powerful enough to completely clamp down on another or to challenge the admittedly primarily Anglo-Saxon values (like individual liberty and democracy) of this country (that's not a nationalistic or racialist statement; merely an observation of fact). At the moment, however, we are experiencing our least diverse immigrant population, and this lack of diversity means a potentially powerful bloc against acclimating to and accepting American values and American sovereignty. I don't think a serious challenge to American sovereignty in our West will occur, but, like I alluded to above, I don't particularly want to risk it out of the name of "compassion" either. Ethics are ethics, and I'm looking out for the American people while trying not to be a dick at the same time.
