Marijuana is a bigger moneymaker than cocaine for the dope smugglers
That's one of the tidbits of info in this New York Times video report called "War Without Borders" (9 minutes, 20 seconds long, ie., you've probably got the time to watch.)
One of Houston's favorite gun stores, Carter's Country, makes a cameo appearance in the viddy when they report that most (90% I think they said) of the weapons used in Mexico's drug wars come from licensed weapons dealers in the USA.
Most everybody in America has a hand it, one way or another, however obliquely.
There's the consumer demand for dope (pot, meth, heroin, cocaine), which most of you rednecks already know about.
Then there's the whole American gun rights thing, which the NYT viddy doesn't get into, but which also is obvious. The gun rights lobby wants the right to buy automatic assault weapons (since we might have to take over our government cause of earmarks? creeping socialism? invasion of Mujahadeen? not sure), many of which wind up south o' the border, blah-blah-blah.
So, whether you're a doper or a 2nd Amendment fighter or, say, a virulent anti-drug crusader who can't abide legalization, this Bud's For You!
Ah well, whattyagonnado?
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One of Houston's favorite gun stores, Carter's Country, makes a cameo appearance in the viddy when they report that most (90% I think they said) of the weapons used in Mexico's drug wars come from licensed weapons dealers in the USA.That's wrong.
http://www.factcheck.org/politics/counting_mexicos_guns.html
As is this:
The gun rights lobby wants the right to buy automatic assault weapons (since we might have to take over our government cause of earmarks? creeping socialism? invasion of Mujahadeen? not sure), many of which wind up south o' the border, blah-blah-blah.If we don't have the right to buy them NOW, which we don't, how do they end up south of the border NOW? The answer is, of course, they don't.
Gun smuggling is already against the law. Use those laws to stop gun smuggling, if you really shive a git. But don't drag us gun nuts and the Bill of Rights into the dope legalization scrap. Fight that battle on your own, thanks.
TFG
TFG -- so how do you stand on pot legalization?
I gave up on retaining criminalization a few years ago on almost all of it. Fire it up, smoke it out, burn it down, go crazy -- doesn't matter to me, anymore. I feel sorry for the good cops fighting a losing battle against their fellow Americans and I feel contempt for the bad cops abusing the law to throw their weight around. So, decriminalize all of it, I wouldn't stop at pot, and I guess we'll see how it all works out. It'll only add a small number of billions to the social agenda, anyway. I think the cost to society of decrimnalization is way under-rated, but I have no proof or logic for that.
TFG
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