This Could Be San Diego Next

Gunbattles stir panic in 2 Mexican border cities

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The real problem with these border battles with high caliber rifle fire, machine gun fire, and hand grenades, and recently I have heard about RPG launchers (rocket propelled grenades from a shoulder launcher) could just as easily be taking place in Chula Vista or even San Diego.

Californians are very aware of the problem and many believe Proposition 19 might be a partial solution to the violence, especially as 341 million dollars in Marijuana was just torched by the Mexican government in Tijuana, Mexico on the Border of California today. Though I don't like Proposition 19 if it saves hundreds or thousands of Californians lives in the next 10 or 20 years then it just might be not a good thing but a necessary thing unfortunately in the crazy times we are living in today.

Since 28,000 people have been killed in Mexico Drug Cartel Gun battles since 2006 we should in the United States compare this to the men and women we have lost so far in Iraq and Afghanistan. These battles do not seem to be letting up. There are two wars going on in Mexico, one between all the drug cartels and one between the Mexican government and the drug cartels. At present everyone is losing this war and we here in the U.S. have to find a useful way to keep RPG's, hand grenades, machine guns and high caliber rifles from being used on the streets of places like Chula Vista or San Diego here in California.

In a strange sort of macabre sort of way this reminds me of movies of Al Capone and the Mafia during the 1920s and 1930s and Eliot Ness of the FBI. Then there were Tommy Guns (submachine guns) used regularly between gangs here in the U.S. and between the FBI and the Mafia gangs. Let's not let this happen again here in 2010.