{"id":9993,"date":"2011-06-23T12:08:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T16:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9993"},"modified":"2011-06-23T12:06:12","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T16:06:12","slug":"more-on-mexicos-plight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/06\/23\/more-on-mexicos-plight\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Mexico’s plight"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives losing control of their crack-brained “Operation Fast and Furious” (aka “Gunwalker”), you’d think that the firearm problem in Mexico has gotten worse. Even if the low estimate of 2500 weapons delivered to the narcotrafficers is accurate (most think it’s at least 4 times that number), it barely puts a dent<\/a> in the extent of Mexico’s problems:<\/p>\n

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By now it should be clear that the Mexican drug cartels have taken over the country. They\u2019ve murdered journalists, politicians, judges, businessmen, police, soldiers and each other, with impunity. Their control is so complete that they\u2019ve set up roadblocks to extort blood money from anyone bold enough to believe they have the right to travel freely. They\u2019ve murdered so many people that they\u2019ve resorted to dumping lifeless bodies into mass graves.<\/p>\n

Every single day, there\u2019s a fresh story of murder and mayhem. Today, it\u2019s “Eight Bodies Found in Mountains in Northern Mexico” and “Gunmen Kidnap 7 from Drug Rehab Center in Northern Mexico”. The crime-related casualties number in the tens of thousands. That\u2019s to say nothing of the thousands physically and psychologically maimed by torture, or the millions of Mexican living in fear, denied their basic human rights. The Taliban have nothing on these guys.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In other words, adding a few thousand guns from American sources isn’t even a drop in the bucket as far as Mexico’s real problems are concerned:<\/p>\n

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The ATF purposely mislead Americans to believe that \u201c90 percent of Mexican cartels guns come from Bob\u2019s Gun Store.\u201d That lie was exposed: 88 percent of guns confiscated by the Mexican authorities and successfully submitted for trace to the ATF<\/em> came from America. (Not necessarily American gun dealers<\/em> either, BTW). How many qualifiers can you stick in a stat to make it bark like a dog? More importantly, the total population of guns confiscated by the Mexicans in that stat was 30,000.<\/p>\n

Now consider the fact that the Mexican police and military are thoroughly corrupt. In fact, there\u2019s every reason to believe that these two entities have supplied the drug cartels with majority of their box fresh military-grade weapons. Weapons that American and foreign weapons makers sold to the Mexican authorities legally<\/em>. And that means the Mexican have no reason to confiscate any<\/em> weapons — other than creating a little security theater and transferring ownership from one cartel to another.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives losing control of their crack-brained “Operation Fast and Furious” (aka “Gunwalker”), you’d think that the firearm problem in Mexico has gotten worse. Even if the low estimate of 2500 weapons delivered to the narcotrafficers is accurate (most think it’s at least 4 times that number), it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[465,84,13],"tags":[119,49,516,112],"class_list":["post-9993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-government","category-usa","tag-drugs","tag-guns","tag-mexico","tag-organizedcrime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2Bb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9995,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993\/revisions\/9995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}