Last week, nine American citizens, three mothers and six children, were killed while leaving their settlement in a caravan of SUVs in Sonora, Mexico, on Nov. 4.
Promptly after, President Donald Trump offered help to Mexico “wage WAR on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth.”
Kendra Lee Miller, the sister-in-law of 30-year-old victim Rhonita Maria Miller, appeared on CNN and told Americans to “fight” for their guns.
“The Mexican people here are oppressed,” Miller said. “They are being abused by the cartels, living in fear for their life. We can’t drive public roads safely. We’re being threatened that we can’t even take some of the public roads or else we’ll have bad things happen to us.”
“So many people are not protected the way they should be,” she said.
“I don’t know where you’re standing on the whole, people-trying-to-take-the-away-guns-in-America right now, but I say, fight for those guns,” Miller continued. “These things are happening here in Mexico because the people can’t protect themselves, because by law they’re not allowed to own these guns.”
“So since the government isn’t doing their job of protection in the way that they should, these cartels can just wreak havoc and the people are left defenseless. So I say, hold onto your guns, people,” Miller said.
According to Miller, the attack was not an accident and their family was targeted to start a war.
“Our family was picked to stir up trouble and start a war,” Miller said. “It was an attack on innocent civilians to basically start a war … between the Chihuahua and Sonora cartels who’ve been having turf battles.”
American Father Who Lost Wife and Sons in Mexico Leaves With Rest of Family
David Langford lost his wife and two sons in a violent ambush in Mexico on Nov. 4. He spoke in public for the first time after the tragedy and has made the decision to leave Mexico with the rest of his family because “you don’t get justice too much in Mexico,” he said in an interview with ABC.
“So now it’s my whole life has turned upside down. Not only have I lost a wife and two children, but I’m having to move the rest of my family with really no place to go at this point,” Langford said on ABC’s “World News Tonight” on Nov. 10. “I believe in forgiveness, but I also believe in justice and forgiveness doesn’t rob justice. You don’t get justice too much in Mexico.”
Langford’s 13-year-old son, Devin, who survived the attack, walked for 14 miles to their settlement in La Mora looking for help after he hid his injured brothers and sisters.
“Every one of my children that survived that are living miracles,” Langford said. “How many bullet holes were fired into that vehicle … at that horrific scene and how many children were involved. It’s amazing. It’s amazing. It’s beyond amazing that they survived.”
Langford decided to leave the area with his family since they can’t avoid the violence of the drug cartels. They had been living in the area for decades.
“It’s not worth living in fear,” said Langford. “The toughest part for me was saying goodbye … saying goodbye to two innocent lives that were cut short and a vibrant wife that lived a life to its fullest that had many friends and was loved by all by everybody.”
