I woke up early this morning to reblog a post about climate change, but my tablet opened on a Word Press page that promoted the following news story. The title below caught my eye — how could it not! Reading the story sent shivers up my spine. The whole of Mexico has only one, yes one, legal gun store, on a military base in Mexico City. Yet Mexico has been the site of over 150,000 gun deaths since 2006, almost all at the hands of well-armed drug cartels. Does this make sense? Where do they get all their weapons from? Illegal gun dealers? Maybe a few. Believe it or not, they actually buy them legally, in the USA!
Draw your own conclusions. To me buying guns legally with drug money should not be possible. But gun dealers in Texas and Arizona, at least, are profiting, legally, on the avails of crime. And Texas, especially, has made it ultra easy for them to do this.
i hope you are as horrified as I am. But I live in Canada, all I can do is report the news. For those living in the USA, maybe you can do more. Please! Write your elected officials. Force Texas, Arizona, and any other states involved in arming the drug cartels to cease and desist. They are directly profitting from the suffering of not only Mexican citizens, but from drug addicts all over the world, and particularly from those living in United States of America!
Where is the justice in that?
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