Do we all remember when Charlton Heston said "when guns are outlawed only the outlaws will have guns?"
Mexico has extremely strict gun control laws that keep guns from the average law abiding citizens! Right now, Mexican citizens cannot have legal guns other than hunting rifles or shotguns to defend themselves with. See the result below.
Mexico's drug war: Number of dead passes 30,000
More than 30,000 people have died in drug-related violence in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon took office four years ago, the government says.
Almost 12,500 have been killed so far this year, a sharp increase on 2009.
Mexico's attorney-general said the number of deaths was "regrettable", but showed that the security forces were having success in their fight against the drugs gangs.
President Calderon has sent thousands of troops to battle the cartels.
The latest figures were announced by the attorney-general, Arturo Chavez.
He said 12,456 people had been registered killed in drug-related violence so far this year, compared to 9,600 in 2009, bringing the total to 30,196 since President Calderon took office in December 2006.
But he said the figures reflected the "desperation" of the cartels in the face of pressure from the security forces.
Mr Chavez said the government had seized record quantities of arms and drugs and captured or killed 10 of the 24 most wanted drug traffickers.
The Mexican government says many of the deaths are the result of fighting between rival gangs over territory and smuggling routes into the US.
Most of the killings are concentrated in certain regions, particularly the northern border states.
The border city of Ciudad Juarez alone has seen 3,000 killings so far this year, ten times more than in 2007.
Critics of Mr Calderon's policies say they have increased the level of violence without reducing the flow of cocaine and other drugs into the US.
Human rights groups have also raised concerns that using the military has exposed civilians to possible abuse.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12012425The score:
30,000 4 years
7,500 each year average
625 per month
20 1/2 per day As far as the violence coming across the border that many on this site deny, well see the two stories below:
Authorities hunt for fifth suspect in killing of Border Patrol agent
Authorities combed the rugged terrain west of Rio Rico on Wednesday, searching for a fugitive suspect in the deadly shooting of a Border Patrol agent.
Four other suspects were detained immediately after Agent Brian A. Terry, 40, was shot late Tuesday in the Peck Canyon area. But a fifth eluded capture and was last seen heading south on foot in blue pants and a blue-and-white-striped shirt.
Police radio chatter early Wednesday afternoon noted a possible sighting of the suspect on the western slope of Atascosa Peak. Shortly after the radio report, the Nogales International witnessed a Department of Homeland Security Blackhawk helicopter circling over the peak, approximately 15 miles northwest of Nogales and less than 10 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border.
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The area in and around Peck Canyon has been plagued in recent years by border bandits, with Border Patrol agents, hunters, rancher and illegal immigrants regularly reporting encounters – sometimes violent – with armed men. It’s no coincidence that Terry was working in the area, Judd said.
“Anywhere that we know that bandit activity is taking place, that’s where BORTAC goes,” he said. “If BORTAC’s out there patrolling that area, it’s a bad area."
http://www.nogalesinternational.com/articles/2010/12/15/news/breaking_news/doc4d09568e425a6966776152.txtLa Familia Michoacana operating in Washington D.C.
12/15/10 WTOP News - WASHINGTON - Authorities blocked a notorious Mexican drug cartel from gaining a foothold in the nation's capital with a series of arrests and indictments in a massive trafficking scheme, police said Wednesday.
Eight illegal immigrants were arrested over the weekend in Georgia and North Carolina, and on Tuesday a federal grand jury in the District indicted all eight plus a ninth man who remains at large.
Authorities said they seized about 80 pounds of crystal meth with a street value of more than $3.5 million, by far the largest meth seizure in Washington's history. The previous record was about two pounds.
"Usually we see (crystal meth) the size of pebbles," said John Torres, special agent in charge of the Washington office of U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement. "In this case we're talking icicles."
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier says they also seized 10 gallons of liquid meth, more than 1,000 grams of cocaine, 11 pounds of marijuana, three guns and more than $35,000 in cash.
Those arrested have links to the "La Familia" drug cartel in the Mexican state of Michoacan, police said. Authorities were eager to keep the cartel from gaining a foothold in Washington because of its reputation for brutality.
"They have no qualms about using violence _ murder, kidnapping," Torres said.
Cartel members are especially dangerous to the U.S. because they refuse as a matter of honor to sell drugs to fellow Mexicans, Torres said. So they're always on the lookout for export markets.
"It's almost cult-like down in Michoacan _ they don't want to turn their own Mexican citizens into drug addicts. But they have no qualms about selling it here," Torres said.
The Washington region in particular was an attractive market because, historically, the city has not been exposed to high levels of crystal meth abuse. That could change quickly, Lanier said, if it became readily available because of the drug's highly addictive nature.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/12/la-familia-michoacana-operating.htmlMaybe when "our" esteemed politicians find their kids, grand-kids, Friends and neighbors turning up beheaded and hanging from overpasses they might start seeing the Mexican invasion as something besides cheap labor and start doing something fucking real about these problems.
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