tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1406088964942152547.post2183099098294420462..comments2024-03-28T21:31:47.191-04:00Comments on The Abode of McThag: The Lovely Harvey RantsAngus McThaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09295013525738248801noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1406088964942152547.post-85920138315884734692016-06-19T20:43:23.655-04:002016-06-19T20:43:23.655-04:00Yep... Mexico has basically complete gun control. ...Yep... Mexico has basically complete gun control. It is almost impossible to legally own a firearm in Mexico. Here in Texas we are very used to the Mexican government blaming the US for their violence problem. But it is a bunch of BS. The murder rate in Mexico is much higher than Texas even though firearms are legal here. At the peak there were more than 30,000 murders or people missing and presumed dead per year just from the Juarez area. Murder rates across the border have actually gone down some the past couple years despite guns still being legal in Texas. The reason isn't as the powers that be would like you to believe -- that the Mexican government is winning their civil war (and that's what is going on down there, even though the media and the US and Mexican governments don't want to admit it), it is because they have LOST. The killings slowed down because Los Zetas, one of the two major cartels operating on the eastern part of the US-Mexico border won the war and now controls most of north Mexico along the Texas border and eastern Mexico along the gulf coast and Caribbean Sea. They pretty much ran out of Cartel De Gulfo people to kill. The Mexican army in that area is mostly under the payroll of Los Zetas. Anyway... back to blaming Texas for Mexico's problems... The claim is that most of the cartel's firepower "comes from Texas gun shows". While it is true that there is some smuggling into Mexico across the border, it mostly is going to other Mexicans who just want to protect their families. The cartels have NO REASON to pay full US retail plus the smuggling cost to buy semi-auto firearms. And even then a large portion of the cross border traffic is stolen, not even "straw purchased". The cartels mostly buy their firearms overseas from places like Pakistan/Afghanistan where a lot of the Heroin they sell comes from. Not only are they cheaper over there, they also can buy full auto AKs and stuff like RPGs that you just can't buy at Texas gun shows. Seriously, I've been to plenty of gun shows, and you can't buy that stuff there. Oh -- then there's the other way they get them -- from the Mexican Army and Police. Yep -- as I mentioned, most of those guys are on the cartel's payroll. Not that they usually have a choice. Los Zetas considers bribes to be "unrefusable". You take the bribe or you die. And usually your family dies. I would actually go as far as to suggest that if the liberals ever do manage to ban guns in the US that the smuggling of firearms will be from Mexico into the US. The US government is obviously powerless to stop millions of undocumented people from coming across the border along with billions of dollars of illicit narcotics. It is hard to believe they could stop many guns from coming across. And for that matter... if the Mexican government doesn't like firearms from the US crossing into Mexico maybe they need to close the border from their side and stop the people and drugs from coming this way and the money from returning south. Not likely to happen though because the powers that be on both sides of the border obviously want things to stay the way they are. Bribes and campaign contributions I would suggest probably have a lot to do with that.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1406088964942152547.post-70650154078319929572016-06-19T16:17:13.712-04:002016-06-19T16:17:13.712-04:00Pretty much nails it...Pretty much nails it...Old NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.com