Should We Invade Mexico and End Their Drug Civil War?

[rightwinger]

We send guns to Mexico, they send drugs in return

That is the basis of the Drug War

Mexico gets all the machineguns they want from central and south America, for 100 bucks or less. It is a fantasy created by you progressives that the cartels are armed by the US.

Obummer basically gave them guns to try and support that lie. That was the only way they would take them.

Where does Mexico really get its guns?

Some estimates – including a recent study published in Oxford’s Journal of Economic Geography – have pegged the number of guns crossing the U.S-Mexico border at over 200,000 annually.

The most recent available data compiled by the National Tracing Center for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) indicated that a total of 67,295 firearms recovered in Mexico between January 1, 2013, and December 31, 2018, were determined to have been either manufactured in the U.S. or legally imported into the U.S., an average of 11,216 per year.

 

[westwall]

We send guns to Mexico, they send drugs in return

That is the basis of the Drug War

Mexico gets all the machineguns they want from central and south America, for 100 bucks or less. It is a fantasy created by you progressives that the cartels are armed by the US.

Obummer basically gave them guns to try and support that lie. That was the only way they would take them.

Where does Mexico really get its guns?

Some estimates – including a recent study published in Oxford’s Journal of Economic Geography – have pegged the number of guns crossing the U.S-Mexico border at over 200,000 annually.

The most recent available data compiled by the National Tracing Center for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) indicated that a total of 67,295 firearms recovered in Mexico between January 1, 2013, and December 31, 2018, were determined to have been either manufactured in the U.S. or legally imported into the U.S., an average of 11,216 per year.

So you trot out a "estimate" of 200,000 per year, but actual tabulated records support 11,000 per year. In other words guns that are stolen from America and used by the cross border narco terrorists.

Thanks for proving my point.