One of the better articles I've read recently on the matter. And that's saying a lot when it comes from anti NPR.

http://www.npr.org/2012/01/28/145996427 ... ce-on-guns

It's not really a taboo stance.

Xela

When the Hell are the governments (and "journalists") on either side of the river going to wake up to the fact that it's the God damn drug money, not the guns that fuels the violence?

If you want to end the violence, end the Prohibition. Do that and the money will dry up and along with it the violence.

Private prison systems, banks laundering drug money, too much money to be made to legalize it.

Interesting article, thanks.

A citizen who wants a permit for a weapon must apply to the Mexican military — a process that can cost upward of $10,000.

Mm..yeah. That's not too sketchy. Nothing like putting that kind of civilian regulation into the hands of a developing country's military.

...I see in the U.S. many things happen because youth don't know how to use guns.

That's an odd analysis of the problem, coming from a presumably educated person.

I usually like John Burnett, but "But do Mexicans want gun laws similar to those in the U.S., where buying an assault rifle can be as easy as buying a beer?" is disappointing. Either typical biased hyperbole or poor research.

I was glad to hear an editorial by Michelle Martin on Tell me More today about domestic violence that touches on the gun question:

Let's take the whole question of access to guns. As Craig Whitney points out in his new book Living with Guns, gun violence has actually been falling dramatically in this country, although the number of guns in circulation has not.

In fact, Whitney says there are some 100 million handguns in the U.S. right now and the prospect that any significant number of these will be turned in or confiscated by the government seems more a fantasy — like those made up sports leagues — than a real plan for addressing a real problem.

http://www.npr.org/2012/12/12/167054350 ... busers-too

How's that for an NPR oddity?

SwampGrouch wrote:When the Hell are the governments (and "journalists") on either side of the river going to wake up to the fact that it's the God damn drug money, not the guns that fuels the violence?

If you want to end the violence, end the Prohibition. Do that and the money will dry up and along with it the violence.

If only the masses sheep would wake up to that fact.

eelj wrote:Private prison systems, banks laundering drug money, too much money to be made to legalize it.

Yep. Drugs aren't illegal because they are "bad." Drugs are illegal because so many make money on them being illegal.

Cops, private prisons, pharmaceutical companies, cotton, alcohol, cigarettes, politicians, and don't forget about drug dealers, all make money because drugs are illegal.

If only more people knew drug dealers WANT drugs illegal; if they might reconsider their position on being in favor of prohibition.

And, of course, they again push the nonsense about how all the "illegal guns" are coming from the USA.

"In Mexico, where criminals are armed to the teeth with high-powered weapons smuggled from the United States"....

I guess they must mean the ones smuggled as part of Eric Holder's "Fast 'N' Furious" operation, eh? Yet they demonstrate how ineffective strict anti-RKBA laws are. Guns are very, very restricted in Mexico, yet it seems all the bad folks have 'em...and some good folks who just want to defend themselves from said bad folks.

California, DC, Maryland, New York City, New Jersey, Illinois...are you listening?