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 involved....violence 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 When Prohbition was repealed, the violence and profiteering associated with the illegal alcohol black market subsided almost immediately.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 > > > > > >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit >>our website: http://texascavers.com/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: >>texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: >>texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
