[dsrtsage]

“Mexico has extremely restrictive laws regarding gun possession.”

If you were a politician in mexico, would you feel safe in a country with roving mobs of poor armed mexicans?

[familyop]

"If you were a politician in mexico, would you feel safe in a country with roving mobs of poor armed mexicans?"

Definitely not. It was dangerous even for young American Gringos to drive very far south in Mexico back in the '70s.

[familyop]

Talking about eastern Mexico between the Gulf and the west Texas border, BTW. Don’t know about Tijuana back then.

[familyop]

That is, don’t know how it was back then to enter through Tijuana and try to drive way south. People from Chihuahua State and to the west of there seemed more friendly to me while meeting many of them in Colorado. East of Chihuahua was something else, and towards the south from the east side of Mexico was pretty scary. Going south, cops told us to turn back. They said that even some of the police to the south might plant us next to the road.