Reply #11: "I fail to see how US gun laws are going to fix the broken system in Mexico." [View All]

[iverglas]

I almost believe you.

Myself, I fail to see how decriminalizing drugs in the US is going to solve the organized crime-related violence in Mexico.

First, do we really imagine that the US is going to open its borders to all the drugs in the world, even if decriminalization of possession occurs?

Second, what do you imagine is going to become of the gangs and other criminal organizations now involved in the drug trade -- and all their firearms?

They're going to beat them into ploughshares and go take a siesta between shifts at tilling the fields?

The war on drugs isn't the problem. Organized crime is. Criminal organizations will find an activity to engage in, to make profits, no matter how many now-outlawed activities are decriminalized. Organized crime really isn't a product of poverty and all those root causes alone. It gets its footsoldiers there, but it isn't caused by them.

And as long as they have weapons to defend their territory, intimidate their rivals and customers and their adversaries in officialdom, and enforce their demands, they are going to do it.