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by Paladin
Sun Feb 03, 2019 11:44 am
Forum: The Crime Blotter
Topic: Vacationing in gun free Mexico
Replies: 107
Views: 47959

Re: Vacationing in gun free Mexico

philip964 wrote: Sat Feb 02, 2019 8:52 pm https://www.news.com.au/travel/world-tr ... 01a23da44c

Tourist visiting Mexico is killed and organs stolen.
Interesting that this was in the Australian news. A quick search shows British, Korean, and Foxnews covered the story. Guess CNN was too busy in their "creativity" department to cover a story that's actually important to Americans.

Record 10.6 Million Tourists Visited Mexico in Q1 2018

More than 31 million Americans visited Mexico in 2016, the National Travel & Tourism Office says, and State Department data shows there were reports of 75 American homicide victims there. In comparison, 49 million Americans traveled to all other foreign countries, and 69 were reported killed by homicide.

US State Department on the five Mexican states that the State Department tells Americans not to visit:
“Gang activity, including gun battles, is widespread," the agency says. "Armed criminal groups target public and private passenger buses traveling through Tamaulipas, often taking passengers hostage and demanding ransom payments.”
by Paladin
Mon Sep 24, 2018 2:55 pm
Forum: The Crime Blotter
Topic: Vacationing in gun free Mexico
Replies: 107
Views: 47959

Re: Vacationing in gun free Mexico

Mexico is an astoundingly beautiful country and most people there are good hardworking folks. Very sad to see so much violence in a place where ordinary people are not permitted to own firearms for self defense.

The founders didn't conjure up the right to bear arms out of thin air. They learned its value from the founders of Western civilization.
Aristotle considered the possession of arms synonymous with possession of political power: "when the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name -- a constitution . . . in a constitutional government the fighting-men have the supreme power, and those who possess arms are the citizens"

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