Re:Venezuelan Opposition Leaders Detained at Gunpoint in Raids
by justadeveloper2 on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @10:31AM
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People have been killing each other long before guns were invented, so I doubt very much it has any real effect. The "uncontrolled US weapons market?" Give me a break! The biggest seller of weapons to those countries is the US Government itself!
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Re:Venezuelan Opposition Leaders Detained at Gunpoint in Raids
by distances on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @10:58AM
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The scale of potential violence with guns vs. without guns should be obvious, so not commenting on that.
As for the US weapons flow to Mexico, there was a NPR article last year on the topic [1]. Wikipedia [2] mentions "many of the traceable weapons come from American weapons markets and festivals that do not have regulations for the buyers", which very much is the uncontrolled weapons market, right?
To be fair, the Wikipedia page also points to the other direction with "weapons [..] come from either government personnel who defect to the cartels, or are sourced from Central American black markets".
[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/12/462781469/...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Drug_War#Gun_origins