Mexico re-thinking gun possession?
Tue, 2016-07-12 20:50
News Staff
No, not really
By G. Romero Wendorf
Mexico is now allowing business owners the right to bear arms to protect themselves from criminal gangs? Amazing news, considering the country’s long history of a near total ban on gun ownership (excluding, of course, the criminals).
But it’s only in a small area of the country. For the rest of Mexico and it’s law-abiding citizens, the innocents, the federal government seems disinterested in their plight, and in many cases, actually seem to work to make sure the drug cartels suffer no resistance from the enraged citizenry.
If you look at the shoot-outs along the border between drug gangs and the Mexican feds, it usually starts with a drug caravan attacking the Mexican military, which isn’t the brightest thing to do. But that’s what meth does. It destroys the brain. I see little evidence of the Mexican federal policia actually doing anything in the way of proactive policing, trying to dismantle