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I have no desire to go to Mexico for a vacation.
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/18/world/no ... index.html

NC school teacher was murdered in Mexico while hiking.
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Gah danged!
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If you get Netflix watch Narcos:Mexico. One of their location scouts was murdered...

"He was reportedly found riddled with bullets in his car in a remote area near Hidalgo, which is known to have one of the highest murder rates in Mexico."

The series is very good. I would no longer go to Mexico though, ever.
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03Lightningrocks wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 5:50 pm I have no desire to go to Mexico for a vacation.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/3-teens-2-th ... 29371.html

Two San Diego residents went to Mexico for a family BBQ and did not return. Three bodies were found at the front of an apartment block, they had been tortured. Two were the young Americans.
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Wow. Mexico is a mess. Some of the comments with that story makes one think.

Edit: I just spent the last hour researching Murders in Mexico. Good Night NUrse! It is actually crazy the stuff I find. Why anyone would go anywhere in Mexico right now just escapes me.
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03Lightningrocks wrote: Sat Dec 01, 2018 5:46 am Wow. Mexico is a mess. Some of the comments with that story makes one think.

Edit: I just spent the last hour researching Murders in Mexico. Good Night NUrse! It is actually crazy the stuff I find. Why anyone would go anywhere in Mexico right now just escapes me.
And it has the world’s most stringent gun laws. BTW only one gun store in Mexico. It’s on a military base.
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philip964 wrote: Sat Dec 01, 2018 10:02 am
03Lightningrocks wrote: Sat Dec 01, 2018 5:46 am Wow. Mexico is a mess. Some of the comments with that story makes one think.

Edit: I just spent the last hour researching Murders in Mexico. Good Night NUrse! It is actually crazy the stuff I find. Why anyone would go anywhere in Mexico right now just escapes me.
And it has the world’s most stringent gun laws. BTW only one gun store in Mexico. It’s on a military base.
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mayor wrote: Sat Dec 01, 2018 10:24 am
philip964 wrote: Sat Dec 01, 2018 10:02 am
03Lightningrocks wrote: Sat Dec 01, 2018 5:46 am Wow. Mexico is a mess. Some of the comments with that story makes one think.

Edit: I just spent the last hour researching Murders in Mexico. Good Night NUrse! It is actually crazy the stuff I find. Why anyone would go anywhere in Mexico right now just escapes me.
And it has the world’s most stringent gun laws. BTW only one gun store in Mexico. It’s on a military base.
Cartels get 'em from US don't you know? - courtesy of the BATF.

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Sad it was a place we all wanted to go in the 1980s.
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Deltaboy wrote: Mon Dec 03, 2018 11:30 am Sad it was a place we all wanted to go in the 1980s.
I remember the old days as well.
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Deltaboy wrote: Mon Dec 03, 2018 11:30 am Sad it was a place we all wanted to go in the 1980s.
It was already a mess at that time, just for different reasons. I spent a lot of my youth throughout the country as a missionary kid.

No way I'd go back by choice now. Last time I was there was around 2008 on a cruise, we stopped at Cozumel and I didn't even bother getting off the boat I was so tired of it :lol:
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https://www.breitbart.com/border/2018/1 ... homicides/

540 homicides in Cancun in 2018. 21 in 2014. There are no gun stores in Cancun*. Population about 750,000

542 homicides in Chicago in 2018. There are no gun stores in Chicago. Population about 2,700,000

335 homicides in Houston in 2018. There are about 150 gun stores and maybe another 1500 places you can buy guns in Houston. Population about 2,400,000.

*There is only one gun store in all of Mexico. It is located on a military base.
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03Lightningrocks wrote: Sat Dec 01, 2018 5:46 am Wow. Mexico is a mess. Some of the comments with that story makes one think.

Edit: I just spent the last hour researching Murders in Mexico. Why anyone would go anywhere in Mexico right now just escapes me.
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