So the cartels, who profit directly from the high demand of drugs by Americans, were given weapons, by Americans, to meet that demand of drugs. They then essentially hijacked the mexican government with those guns and violence in order to keep their drug supply available to Americans, meanwhile destroying hope for peaceful life for many many towns and people in mexico. But it’s the Mexicans trying to escape those problems, once again created by demand in the US, who are the problem?
How very fucking American.
You know who doesn’t have a fentanyl problem? Mexico. They’re not the ones creating demand.
I’m simplifying, I know, but I’m very fucking tired of Mexicans and South Americans being blamed as if the US hadn’t fucked the entire country and almost the entire South American continent over for the last 50 years.
I know I’m probably preaching to the choir here but fuck man I’m just tired.
Yeah and not just guns that are smuggled abroad from the US. Most illegal guns in Europe come from former wars, stolen out of abandoned and badly secured depots. The balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan. And once the war in Ukraine is over many unused weapons will flow into the European criminal circuit.
The entire Military Industrial Complex is making the world more dangerous even during peace time.
Buckle up because guess what, George W Bush implemented the gun smuggling into Mexico with a plan called “Fast and Furious”
Most places, if not all places there’s a war, there are American weapons. Remember all the people coming after the American soldiers in Black Hawk Down, well they used American weapons.
What do you mean? The popular image is of the Somali militias using Soviet-designed weapons. AKs and such
Then their opposition has American weapons.
USA is an arms dealer cosplaying as a country.
Reminder that as of 2025, the US is the only country with more privately owned guns than people, at 120.5 guns per 100 people… The 2nd highest is the Falkland Islands at 62.1 guns per 100 people.
lol git gud Falkland Islands
But, seriously, that’s not great.
Seriously though, what the fuck is the civilian excuse for guns on the Falklands? The only native natural predator that could hurt the sheep is long extinct. I guess they’re afraid the sheep will have a revolution.
Might be due to the conflicts with Argentina? Honestly not sure.
If the Argentine army lands, drafting the sheep and giving them guns isn’t going to stop an occupation any more than it did before.
Wrong. I don’t know why Jay Hulme feels the need to lie but there is more than one gun store in Mexico.
A quick look at Wikipedia clearly shows that there are actually two gun stores.
Even easier and faster; a quick look at google maps presents a list, their locations, hours of operation…
All but the first one are airsoft gun stores.
BUSTED
Not sure if I’d really use the troubles as a defense against the proliferation of personal ownership of firearms…
Kinda hard to claim you’ve been “radicalized” by denying other radicalized individuals the ability to fight off a oppressive foreign government with a long history of genocidal tyranny against your entire ethnicity.
… most of witch regimes were set up and funded (weapons too) by the USA or Russia. Usually they were terrorist groups before forming a formal government. And the problem being that the status quo is usually the most profitable and politically beneficial (gives the mentioned colonisers more direct power over the de fuckto marionette countries).
Because screenshots of what someone said on social media aren’t journalism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_regulation_in_Mexico
Mexico has restrictive laws regarding gun possession. There are only two stores in the entire country, DCAM near the capital, and OTCA, in Apodaca, Nuevo León. It also takes months of paperwork to have a chance at purchasing one legally.
Go to the US, buy a gun at a gun show, put it in your trunk and drive back. Done in 1 day. Holy shit
So you’re saying it’s easier to get a gun in Mexico than a RTX 5000 GPU in the US
Yeah, but guns are safer, not even a real fire hazard.
You really shouldn’t be spending your money on either
nah. You should probably buy a gun now if you aren’t a danger to yourself.
EDIT: Assuming you are in the US or its neighbours.
Don’t buy it from a gun store, though.
Eh, if I’m in a situation I need to use my gun, the gun store is either defunct or I don’t care about federal law anymore.
If I was living in the US, I’d definitely stock up on guns and ammo at this point. Not that it’ll help, when the fascists come for you, but at least I wouldn’t go down without a fight.
This is the one reason I’m happy Biden was in office. It gave everyone four more years to prepare. Marginalized communities were some of the heaviest buyers during that time. Small arms have been used to inflict losses on fascists since fascists became a thing. Disarmed groups are substantially more in danger than armed groups.
You can get a high point 9mm for a little over $100. Shotguns are not much more expensive.
Are you implying that it’s easy to get an RTX 5000 in Mexico??
It’s by design.
A lot of effort went into it and it’s a lot of effort to maintain such systems. You need PR along with movie studios, politicians on local, country, and global levels, lobbyists, para-gov agencies (like police unions), judges, etc. It’s a business full of people that do what they can to advance it.We had to arm the drugs in the War on Drugs to make it a real fight.
Something like 85% of guns used in crimes in Canada are smuggled from the US
Sounds to me like someone should build a barrier of some sort to keep all those undesirables from the south out of their country.
Smuggled? The DEA was shipping them direct at one point.
Not literally shipping them, but setting up a sting that never stung. Ironically to stop the flow of illegal guns.
What a quaint scandal compared to what we see on an hourly basis these days.
I love America (maybe less now than in 2023, but still), but one of our great failings has been to ignore Eisenhower when he warned America about the military industrial complex. Most of my generation blames American imperialism on Big Oil, but I think the real roots lie in the MIC.
And ignored Carter when he said we need to turn the heat down and put on sweaters otherwise we will have to make allies with nations that aren’t democratic. Just before he became VP Dick Cheney gave a speech to Halliburton execs saying essentially Caryer was right and now we have to back despots.
Why need more gun store when the biggest gun store in the world is right above you? 🤷🏻♂️
Damn that gravity causing trickle down egunomy.
Maybe per city? I know there’s one single gun shop where I live but not for the entire country? Lol
There are two in the whole country. Finding that odd shows a very Americanized view where gun are ubiquitous instead of controlled which is the exact point of this article.
Not American and I’m still baffled by that. I can think of two in my “small for US standards” city, in a country with less people than Mexico city, although most of their business is for sports and hunting.
Ask for anything slightly large or automatic and they’ll laugh all the way to a cell.
Well even in the US it’s quite expensive and difficult to get an automatic weapon. But if you meant semiautomatic then yeah they’re everywhere.
Are there most likely small illegal shops? Absolutely. But he is correct. There is only one single legal firearms store in mexico city and is run by the military
He didn’t say Mexico City. He said “Mexico.”
There are two in the whole country
Yeah, I think there’s more than one of anything illegal anywhere here on Earth at any given moment. Of course I mean the legal shops. Lol
