But that doesn't bother our gun nuts one little bit. It's an 'acceptable' price for their gun obsession. An acceptable price.......so long as other people are the ones paying it.
That is immoral.
Our ineffectual drug policies and drug laws don't help either.
From MSNBC.com:
One killed every half hour in Mexico drug-related violence
By msnbc.com staff and news services
One person died in drug-related violence every half hour in Mexico last year, amounting to 48 executions per day on average, according to the Mexican Excelsior newspaper, a sign that the violence surrounding the country's powerful cartels continues unabated.A total of 12,903 were murdered in the first nine months of 2011, Excelsior and other newspapers reported, sourcing data from the country's Attorney General's office (link in Spanish).
Nationwide, 47,515 people have been killed since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderon deployed thousands of troops to drug hot spots, through to September 2011, the Attorney General's Office said on Wednesday. The deaths include those involved in the drugs trade, civilians and members of security forces fighting the cartels, according to Excelsior.
The most dangerous city in the country during the first nine months of 2011 was Ciudad Juarez in Chihuahua, on the border with the United States, and the second-most dangerous was Acapulco, Guerrero, on the western coast of the country.
The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that two decapitated bodies had been found inside a burning SUV at the entrance of one of Mexico City's most expensive shopping centers, feeding fears that conflict was seeping into parts of society previously thought safe.
Police recovered the mutilated bodies before dawn off a toll highway at a shopping mall entrance in the heart of the Santa Fe district that's a haven for international corporations, diplomats and the wealthy. The heads and a threatening message were dumped a few yards away, Mexico City prosecutors said in a statement.
By F. Brinley Bruton, London-based senior writer and editor
It is not our fault that they have an idiot like Calderon who cannot get control over his criminals.
ReplyDeleteI simply don't believe the claim about Mexico's guns coming from us. We don't make AK 47s in America, other than a few specialty items, and we don't make FN FiveSevens. But Mexico could solve this problem if they'd take their northern border seriously. They appear to have too much of an interest in allowing their own citizens to cross over to do anything about it, and their government is fundamentally corrupt. This is Mexico's problem, not ours.
ReplyDeleteGun availability is a major factor in the criminal violence in Mexico, as it is in the US.
ReplyDeletemikeb302000 said...
ReplyDelete"Gun availability is a major factor in the criminal violence in Mexico, as it is in the US."
As I pointed out in another post, the majority of weapons in Mexico are supplied to the cartels from their own government, IIRC there were 150,000 soldiers defect to the cartels, there were 9,000 firearms lost by the Mexican government, in addition to leakage from other governments or military. Since the cartels control one of the ports, it wouldn't be surprising if they were getting them by the container load from China. An Ak-47 (the real ones) are about $67 on the international market, why would the cartel pay $1500 a piece to get them from U.S.?