Lobotomy Boy
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Last week I heard a story on National Public Radio (or People's Republic Radio, as it were) about Mexican President Vincente Fox threatening to relax enforcement of narcotics trafficing unless the U.S. tightened up its enforcement of guns going into Mexico. The story outlined Mexico's Draconian gun laws, presenting them as if they were a good thing.
I thought, 'Does anyone in their right mind consider Mexico a safe country? Shouldn't this provide empirical evidence that most gun laws only punish law-abiding gun owners while doing nothing to make a country safer?'
But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that Mexico's gun laws do make the country safer... for the totalitarian regime running the country. Sure, Mexicans now have their first non-PRE president in years, ending nearly a century of one-party rule, but from what I've seen Fox is just the same animal with a different name. Perhaps if the citizens of Mexico were armed (instead of just the criminals and politicians), they could turn the country into a true democracy, rather than just another third-world tin-horn dictatorship masquerading as a democracy.
I thought, 'Does anyone in their right mind consider Mexico a safe country? Shouldn't this provide empirical evidence that most gun laws only punish law-abiding gun owners while doing nothing to make a country safer?'
But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that Mexico's gun laws do make the country safer... for the totalitarian regime running the country. Sure, Mexicans now have their first non-PRE president in years, ending nearly a century of one-party rule, but from what I've seen Fox is just the same animal with a different name. Perhaps if the citizens of Mexico were armed (instead of just the criminals and politicians), they could turn the country into a true democracy, rather than just another third-world tin-horn dictatorship masquerading as a democracy.