Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp said:
A repost from another thread here.
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HIO Danny Boy and mi other friends": I wonder why those that demand strict gun control have no answer when I ask them "Mexico has such strict laws, that it is practically impossible for a citizen to have a firearm, yet, has one of the highest rates of murder in the world, why ?
Don Jose de La Mancha
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Do you for one moment, believe that they will give up their guns when they are already violating multiple existing laws today
I don't remember exactly where you live, but where I live, it is legal for citizens to have a firearm. As long as it is less than military size. Shotguns, and things like .22 rifles and pistols are legal with a permit. I think things are different in the country than in the city.
I have seen plenty of legal size weapons, though I am not saying their owners had permits, I simply do not know if they do.
I have also seen a large amount of large, thus illegal, weapons, though they seem to move around like hot potatoes. I have even seen stuff here I have never seen in the US. Most common is WWII stuff, which makes me think the braceros came back, walking stiff-legged. And, I guarantee you about that time the cops changed their behavior patterns.
It is also my opinion that the police, with their M-16's, are actually out gunned. Not by the 0Zetas, who have all those Holder supplied weapons, but the farmers. A 90 year old uncle died a year ago, and I couldn't believe what that old man had, which had to be, um, disposed of. I had never seen one of those except on MIAMI VICE.
In my small village, there is actually a shop which sells bullets, shotgun shells, and stuff like that. I could not believe my eyes when it opened up.
Hunting I know nothing about, except an old uncle was known in his younger years as a great deer hunter. And, a young man living next door (I live at the outskirts of town, everything beyond me is forest) sometimes kills a rabbit to eat, IN MY LAND, with his .22. Heh, heh. I don't object because he is a good shot, and they are not wealthy, so those adorable little kids can use the meat.
By the way, Mexico does not have one of the highest murder rates in the world, not even with the Zetas in business. Not even close. What does it run? around 18 per 100,000 per year. El Salvador and Honduras, anyhow they run closer to 70 or 80.
http://insightcrime.org/insight-lat...or-murder-rate-highest-since-end-of-civil-war