Guns are not, and never have been, the problem. The problem, in my humble
opinion, are the drug laws in the USA which create the lucrative black market,
and also the war on drugs (a 100% failure in every regard) which has cost about
a Trillion Dollars so far...
A very reasonable analogy is the Prohibition experiment years ago. When alcohol
was illegal there was a strong incentive for the mob to becocme
involvedviolence and profiteering ensued. When Prohbition was repealed,
the violence and profiteering associated with the illegal alcohol black market
subsided almost immediately.
Just my two cents
Scott Nicholson, Broker
512-947-2688
Marketplace Real Estate
www.DiscoveryAustin.com
From: Nico Escamilla pitboun...@gmail.com
To: Rod Goke rod.g...@ieee.org
Cc: Off Topic o...@texascavers.com
Sent: Sat, June 5, 2010 12:20:41 PM
Subject: [ot_caving] Re: [Texascavers] Fwd: Fw: Scary Border Stuff...Why
Haven't We Heard?
Im taking this thread to the OT list
Rod,
Certainly, it is well know that these bad people have bought many a local
police department as well as state and hav'em working for them (I know that
for a fact) however your point is not really valid here... with the exception
of the Army, 50 cal Barrets, AKs RPGs and so on are not issued to law
enforcement, so saying that this weapons might come from Mexican authorities
makes no sense.
Guns arent banned here, you just cant walk around carrying one.
Nico
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Rod Goke rod.g...@earthlink.net wrote:
The question of fault:
Is it the United States' fault for banning drugs and creating a lucrative
demand for criminals to smuggle drugs northwards, or is it Mexico's fault for
banning guns and creating a lucrative demand for criminals to smuggle guns
southward? That issue ranks right up there with life's other great questions,
like Which blade of the scissors is responsible for the cutting?
A serious question about gun sources for Mexican criminals:
Some people, especially some in the Mexican government, have complained that
Mexican criminals are obtaining guns by smuggling them from the U.S. into
Mexico, and there is evidence indicating that this is true to some degree.
There also have been many news reports indicating that organized criminal
gangs in Mexico have been able to bribe, intimidate, or otherwise induce
significant numbers of Mexican police and military personnel to work for the
criminals. This, of course, does not imply that all, or even most, of the
Mexican police or military personnel are corrupt, but the reports do seem to
indicate that the gangs have been able to buy enough influence of this type to
be a major and growing problem in portions of Mexico. In this case, I wonder
how many of the military and police style weapons flowing to Mexican criminals
are coming from corrupt sources in the Mexican police and military and, hence,
would continue to be available to criminals there
even if all gun smuggling from the United States were eliminated. Not
surprisingly, the Mexican government doesn't say much, if anything, about this
aspect of the problem, but for anyone seriously interested in how criminals are
getting guns in Mexico, it is important to understand how many guns are coming
through each channel instead of just pointing fingers across the border at
convenient scapegoats.
Rod
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