7/29/2005

Nuevo Laredo - Rocket Launchers, AK-47's, AR-15 Assault Rifles -- Local Gun Range? NO...Local Neighborhood...

Assailants sprayed a house with bullets early Friday in Nuevo Laredo hours after a group of gunmen used machine guns, grenades and even a rocket launcher to attack another home in this violent Mexican border city, authorities said.

Investigators recovered more than 100 bullets casings from AR-15 assault rifles and found eight AK-47 rifles and a dozen cell phones inside the second house attacked, in the Madero neighborhood, one of the richest areas in Nuevo Laredo, state police said in a statement. No injuries were reported.

Late Thursday, a group of armed men arriving in several vehicles used machine guns, grenades and a rocket launcher to attack a home less than half a mile from the Madero neighborhood, police said...

Is this how they settle arguments in Mexico??

Is it just me, or does anyone else find this scene odd - ESPECIALLY when the Mexican government is obstructing a murderer's return to stand trial here in this country, saying "In Mexico, the death penalty doesn’t exist," Flores said. "The Mexican government wants that principle to be respected."

DR