You wouldn’t know it from the main stream press, but the United States doesn’t supply 90% of the guns Mexicans use in crimes. It supplies 90% of the guns they can TRACK the origins of:
OF COURSE AMERICA IS THE ONLY ONE WHO APPEARS IN THE PAPERWORK YOU BOURGEOIS BOOB! We’re the only ones who keep paperwork! Mexican gangs get their guns from South Korea, China, Spain, Israel, Russia, South America, Guatemala and yes, The Mexican Army. Good luck tracing anything back to any of those groups. When all the untraceable guns are factored into the total, America’s input goes down to a whopping 17%.
My source for the above is an interesting article on the drug war in Taki’s Magazine. The author describes two ways to end the violence in the Mexican drug trade – legalize drugs or just let them fight it out. He says we will accept the default of let them fight it out. I suspect he is right. But there is another way that he hasn’t considered, probably because he doesn’t mind drug use.
We could punish drug users. They are, after all, the ones causing the problem. The dealers are just servicing a market, not making it.
For instance, we could require drug testing for a drivers license, including random checks throughout the 5 year validity for the license. We could require drug testing before any benefit from the government.
There are lots of things we could do to not have to fight a drug war. I favor legalization generally, but would gladly accept a mix of legalization of marijuana and aggressive testing for more dangerous drugs.
The default, of continuing to create American police forces that look and act like military forces, and the continuing erosion of rights is something I’d prefer to avoid.
