Gunmen Kill 17, Wound 18 in Mexico Party Massacre

Gunmen stormed a party in northern Mexico on Sunday and massacred 17 people, authorities said.The assailants arrived at the gathering in the city of Torreon in several cars and opened fire without saying a word, the Coahuila state Attorney General's Office said in statement. At least 18 people were wounded.

In the worst such massacre this year, gunmen raided a drug-rehab center in the northern city of Chihuahua and killed 19 people last month.

In January, gunmen barged into a private party in the border city of Ciudad Juarez and killed 15, many of them high school or university students. Relatives say the January attack was a case of mistaken identity, while state officials claim someone at the party was targeted, although they have not said who it was.

The killings in Torreon came three days after the first successful car bombing by drug cartels, an attack that introduced a new threat to Mexico's raging drug war.

In May, gunmen killed eight people at a bar in Torreon. Later that month, a television station and the offices of a local newspaper came under fire. A pregnant woman was wounded in the attack on the offices of Noticias de El Sol de la Laguna.

If we don’t stop this invasion now, by next year the headlines will read “Gunmen Kill 17, Wound 18 in Tucson Party Massacre” or “Gunmen Kill 17, Wound 18 in Phoenix Party Massacre”. People worry about possible profiling because of 1070, wait till the shooting starts. Then it won’t be profiling, it will be war, and innocent people will be dead, not inconvenienced, because the feds didn’t do their job.