Posted on 01/07/2016 2:58:29 PM PST by ScottWalkerForPresident2016
In the most violence-plagued state, the loss added up to a stunning three years.
A new study suggests that Mexico‘s drug violence was so bad at its peak that it apparently caused the nation‘s male life expectancy to drop by several months.
Experts say the violence from 2005-2010 partly reversed decades of steady gains, noting that homicide rates increased from 9.5 homicides per 100,000 people in 2005 to more than 22 in 2010. That has since declined to about 16 per 100,000 in 2014.
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Salinas, California: 35 murders last year. In a town of 150,000....just Mexico Norte.
Still well behind Baltimore at 55 per 100,000.
Every small town in northern Mexico has army running around in machine gun mounted pick ups. All the cops and army wear baklavas. Creepy as heck.
Truly tilting towards a narco state.
This is why the US needs to build a wall
In addition to stopping the people it would stop large amounts narcotics.
A wall would choke off the cartels land routes making them easier to interdict
C’mon FReepers, why be so judgmental? They’re just practicing out on the range and preparing to be NRA members here in the U.S. Sheesh < /S >
I remember reading a book for a Mexican history course in college. I don’t want to wade through the book for one quote, but it was to the effect that violence was so prevalent in Mexico, that when someone was told about a mutual acquaintance’s passing, the immediate question was “how was he killed?”, not what caused his death.
I looked up the homicide rates by country worldwide. The homicide rate in Mexico is much lower than the rest of Latin America. Central American countries are much worse than Mexico. Venezuela is the worst. Oh by the way, guns are illegal in all of those countries.
And Omoeba wants to import it here.
And most of ‘em were raised Catholic so they’re bitterly clinging to their Bibles as well as their guns. < /sarc>
It’s gotten so bad in Mexico that their funeral homes give volume discounts.
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