Mexican Border City Drug Dead Hits 800

"No wonder so many Mexicans are trying to leave that cesspool. Can the U.S. do anything to stop the violence? Can anyone?"

Legalize drugs. During prohibition alcohol dealers used to kill each other and innocent people all the time. They also bought off judges, prosecutors, customs and law enforcement officers and generally corrupted society on every level. Since alcohol has become legal though, not so much anymore.

“I believe the MexGov could easily end the drug war.”

No way. There is too much money being made. The Mexican government isn't powerful enough to stop it, and neither is ours. If it was so easy, we'd have done it a long time ago.

Yes, Americans can stop using illegal drugs, re “law of supply and demand” and “cause and effect”.

Well, we know that won’t happen. Perhaps a wiser approach would be to end the failed War on Drugs, but that won’t happen, either.
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That cannot be wiser because having dopers driving on the roads or doing any of their abhorrent behavior is a menace.

Why is it that smoking cigarettes is a big NO NO but doing drugs is OK w/the PC crowd? Example: there is a fried brain in the next town who insists on taking his clothes off in public, accosting people, growling and making animal noises. Cigarettes may be bad but not that bad.

No, ending the war on drugs would not be wise. What would be wise is making drugs not PC like they did smoking regular cigarettes.

If the border were closed, the drug trade would drop to a trickle. Mexico could close it, as could the US. The problem is money going to the politicians on both sides for keeping the borders open. No will equals no way. We agree.

What do you mean by closing the border? Are you talking about closing off even all the trade and travel done through border checkpoints? That's probably where most of the drugs are coming through right now. Drugs come in in shipping crates. They come in hidden in private vehicles and tons at a time hidden in trailers pulled by 18 wheelers. Even if we build a fence it won't close the border for drugs. It might slow the illegal aliens coming over to work, but it wouldn't to slow the flow of drugs much. There is too much money involved. I'd bet a million bucks that we'd see just as much cocaine and heroin coming over because we don't produce that stuff here and Americans only consume a few hundred tons of that stuff a year compared to many thousands of tons of marijuana. More meth and marijuana would be produced here, just because they can produce it here. A lot would still come through border checkpoints too though, and over, under and around the fence. There are billions and billions of dollars to be made, high demand and plenty of money to pay for the product in demand. One way or another that demand will be met.

It is proven to work quickly and it is what liberal stealth laws eventually cause, the removal of rights for the good of the government. When black and white turns to grey in the law only we lose. We allow our cities to disregard our laws as they see fit until we have to go draqstic to fix what we know is a problem ,borders, drugs, crime,illegals etc.

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