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Posted by: Recon Number 54
Posted by: markwil1992
Posted by: Recon Number 54
Interesting data.
It's also interesting to note that there is (essentially) no legal civilian ownership of firearms within all of Mexico. It's "against the law" for anyone other than the police and military to have guns in Mexico.
It's a living example of "when owning a firearm is criminalized, only criminals will have guns".
In a word, the whole country is a "gun-free zone" just like US schools, malls, and other locations where the criminals (who have firearms, because they ignore and don't follow the laws) know that they can operate and cause mayhem without interruption from their victims who are disarmed because they are law abiding and obey the laws that prevent them from having firearms. I'm assuming the #1 reason why Mexican criminals own guns is because of drug trafficking. I'm curious what would happen if all drugs were legalized and trafficking stopped.
While the drug trade may be a major focus, the firearms are about maintaining control of areas and the people within them. Kidnapping, murder, and power are the local actions of the cartels, their export "business" keeps them rolling in dough, but if that income were gone, they would still want control/power and be happy to use violence in order to get/maintain that power and control.also Mexican polilitary corruption led to the special forces unit becoming the cartels.
that's right, an entire SF unit went rogue.