Texas Is Arming Mexico's Gunmen
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Texas Is Arming Mexico's Gunmen
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#2Yikes, Mexico should build a wall and make Texas pay for it
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#3Makes sense, Texas has lax gun laws, plenty of gun stores and large border crossings where chances of random search are much lower.
However, Texas politics means gun laws in Texas are unlikely to change soon.
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#4Arm foreign crime syndicates and then scare your citizens about the dangerous foreigners. Solid strategy.
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#5Arm foreign crime syndicates and then scare your citizens about the dangerous foreigners. Solid strategy.
Say whatever else you will, but at least they read 1984 and watched V for Vendetta.
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#6Yikes, Mexico should build a wall and make Texas pay for it
It's funny but, it kind of makes sense...
For sure, gun control is something much needed on the US, for the sake of both nations, for the sake of Central America too.
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#7The dataset is pretty interesting, although scary. I'll end up creating a notebook then using some pandas over it. Something to study, indeed.
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#8Somehow no mention of Operation Fast and Furious, where the US government forced US gun sellers to sell guns to straw purchasers with the explicit purpose to deliver those guns to Mexican cartels? US government then lied to the Congress about it and invoked "executive privilege" to hide the details of this operation.
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#9I don’t spend too much time thinking about guns so this is going to sound pretty ignorant, but reading this article is the first time I realized the terrible feedback loop at play here: the more guns sold the more crimes committed with guns the more people justify wanting/having guns to protect themselves from crime. Duh, says anyone who reads that.
But, with recent US Supreme Court decisions further expanding gun rights, is there any actual hope of stemming gun violence or is that even more of a pipe dream than it has been for the past x decades?
Loaded (ahem) topic, I realize, but genuinely curious. Doesn’t seem like there’s any way to put the genie back in the bottle especially when SCOTUS seems to want to keep rubbing the bottle.
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#10I don’t spend too much time thinking about guns so this is going to sound pretty ignorant, but reading this article is the first time I realized the terrible feedback loop at play here: the more guns sold the more crimes committed with guns the more people justify wanting/having guns to protect themselves from crime. Duh, says anyone who reads that. But, with recent US Supreme Court decisions further expanding gun ri…
Progressives would tell you that gun violence is mostly caused by poverty, the drug war, and various institutional failures (e.g. El Salvador before the gang crackdown) and thus if you reduce these problems you'll also reduce violence.