Border shoot em up!

When the Guard was sent to the border minus their weapons this was predicted. Check out how much drugs got moved through here last year. 62 TONS! And evidently no one thought there might be potential for a firefight in that area?

Help me out, those of you with law enforcement experience. Wouldn't you patrol a neighborhood like that ARMED TO THE STINKING TEETH??

Will we ever get serious about defending our borders? You would think that after 9/11/2001 we'd have realized the need for stricter controls. Yes, I know the suicide crews involved that day didn't come in via a coyote in Mexico. They came in on student visas if I remember correctly. BFD. It's all part of the same package.

We need to wake up. Our borders need to be sealed. Period. Build a wall and mine it's perimeter. Yeah, I know mines have a bad name after all the havoc wrought in places like Afghanistan. Yep. So do walls after the one in Berlin. There are differences. Everyone will know the mines are in place and our wall will be built to keep people OUT, not in!

I'm all for Christian charity and helping my neighbor. But I'll be damned if I think that should include giving him the keys to my house and directions to the refrigerator! Likewise the borders.

So the Guard returned (still without weapons I'll bet). How long before Juan, Jose and the boys decide they want to move some more smack across the border and it's shootemup time again? This time with some fatalities so those pesky gringo Guardsmen know to move on?

UPDATE
Evidently the Guard was armed. So either they were outgunned or under orders not to shoot back. Either way, it stinks! Our people should have whatever firepower is necessary and the option of using it at their own discretion.