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"The day they start taking their border security as serious as we do, Mexico will cut down tremendously on its amount of guns."
Truer words have never been spoken! As a teenager, I made several trips to Mexico during summers doing mission work with my church youth group. EVERY year, we got stopped and had to unload the vans, as well as our 24' enclosed trailer filled with clothing, camping gear and other supplies for the work we were doing. The corrupt government down there was SO worried about a Church of Christ (Mexico is a very Catholic nation, and any religious group that is not Catholic is seen as a threat to their culture) van full of kids and and tents, that they ignored the hundreds of vehicles crossing into their country loaded down with various items. I have since learned after attending the police academy, that those vehicles are EXACTLY what DPS Troopers in some counties look for when looking to make busts, except they can't stop them because that's profiling. You know the ones I'm talking about, small pickup piled unsafely high with bicycles and other items, most of which are actually stolen. That same vehicle was headed north about 2 or 3 days earlier, loaded down with drugs, but you have to catch them on the way in to make the bust, since they offload and load back up with stolen property and money. They choose bikes and things of little value to transport back because the chances of those items being reported stolen is much less than, for example a car, gun etc.
The idea that reducing our rights will somehow help Mexico stop their violence problems is absurd. The only reason the violence hasn't spilled over into America yet is that they are afraid that our police, military and above all, citizens, won't bend over and take it. Those fears are, IMO, well founded....for now anyway.