Because screenshots of what someone said on social media aren’t journalism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_regulation_in_Mexico
Mexico has restrictive laws regarding gun possession. There are only two stores in the entire country, DCAM near the capital, and OTCA, in Apodaca, Nuevo León. It also takes months of paperwork to have a chance at purchasing one legally.
So you’re saying it’s easier to get a gun in Mexico than a RTX 5000 GPU in the US
You really shouldn’t be spending your money on either
nah. You should probably buy a gun now if you aren’t a danger to yourself.
EDIT: Assuming you are in the US or its neighbours.
So the cartels, who profit directly from the high demand of drugs by Americans, were given weapons, by Americans, to meet that demand of drugs. They then essentially hijacked the mexican government with those guns and violence in order to keep their drug supply available to Americans, meanwhile destroying hope for peaceful life for many many towns and people in mexico. But it’s the Mexicans trying to escape those problems, once again created by demand in the US, who are the problem?
How very fucking American.
You know who doesn’t have a fentanyl problem? Mexico. They’re not the ones creating demand.
I’m simplifying, I know, but I’m very fucking tired of Mexicans and South Americans being blamed as if the US hadn’t fucked the entire country and almost the entire South American continent over for the last 50 years.
I know I’m probably preaching to the choir here but fuck man I’m just tired.
The exact plan is to make everyone too tired to understand they’re being played against each other.
The average American lives nearly identical lives and has nearly identical axioms, wants and feelings as the average Mexican, the average South American, the average Canadian, etc. The only real differences are superficial and aesthetic, and if we all woke up with amnesia tomorrow, and the borders were erased from maps, we would probably all just intermix and form a whole new world as we discover each other’s foods, customs, ideas and desires without being afraid of “losing our cultures” or any of the manufactured fears the powers have instilled in us about the “other.”
and when Mexico tried to stop the flow of arms, the courts stepped into keep it going.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-tosses-much-mexicos-lawsuit-against-us-gun-makers-2024-08-07/
Wow I had not heard about this, thank you.
it’s not even the first time either. every few years they try to stem the flow of arms, and like clockwork the conservatives and gun nuts get it all thrown out. And then they continue to complain about the violence in mexico.
https://fpif.org/arms_trafficking_at_the_us-mexico_border/
https://vpc.org/regulating-the-gun-industry/gun-trafficking/
https://www.texastribune.org/2013/01/20/will-new-gun-laws-curb-weapons-smuggling-mexico/
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/us/26borders.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna41257218
https://www.npr.org/2011/01/05/132652351/tracking-gun-dealers-linked-to-mexican-violence
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-03-15-mn-38557-story.html
Because destabilizing mexico so we have an influx of cheap labor has been the point since we were building fucking railroads.
and turning central america into a bunch of plantations for the banana republics dole chiquita etc…
the more I learn about history the more I think: maybe humanity doesn’t deserve to make it.
Wrong. I don’t know why Jay Hulme feels the need to lie but there is more than one gun store in Mexico.
A quick look at Wikipedia clearly shows that there are actually two gun stores.
Even easier and faster; a quick look at google maps presents a list, their locations, hours of operation…Most of these are airsoft stores apparently.All but the first one are airsoft gun stores.
Something like 85% of guns used in crimes in Canada are smuggled from the US
What?
Although there are no gunshops similar to the US, where you could go and buy a pistol, revolver, rifle, etc., there are still plenty of Hunting and Sporting Stores all around the country that can legally sell low caliber weapons and ammo to those with valid permit. Allowed calibers are .22, .25, .32 o .380 and .38 SPL.
Its usually a few per big city and is tend to be visited by a small group of people that usually go to shooting ranges, have ranches or belongs to a hunting/shooting club.
It’s not only one store LMAO 🤣
Its common for people in rural areas to be a gun owner and rare for city dwellers to do so. Yet you can find people that inherited old guns.
Since the 90’s, the Army has regular buy off campaigns to convince the people to get rid of their guns
What a strange, easily disproven lie.
Mexico only has one store that sells firearms, and its federally owned. I’m unsure if you can buy ammo outside of the federally controlled gun store, but I don’t believe you can, and there are DEFINITELY no firearm stores in the city. There are airgun shops, but that’s it. Im honestly not sure why you felt the need to comment this when its verifiably false, but my child will spread misinformation on the internet I guess
That’s probably why: https://lemmy.world/comment/15055901 They’re one of the few Republicans on Lemmy.
Oh, that’s upsetting. I thought they were misinformed but i guees they’re actually consciously, maliciously spreading misinformation ._.
Maybe per city? I know there’s one single gun shop where I live but not for the entire country? Lol
Are there most likely small illegal shops? Absolutely. But he is correct. There is only one single legal firearms store in mexico city and is run by the military
Most places, if not all places there’s a war, there are American weapons. Remember all the people coming after the American soldiers in Black Hawk Down, well they used American weapons.
What do you mean? The popular image is of the Somali militias using Soviet-designed weapons. AKs and such
Wait until dude learns about the long and brutal history of colonization…
