“So assault weapons from the US are causing the drug war in Mexico. Gee, I thought it was the Mexican drug lords that were the problem. How silly of me.”
Actually it’s all the money there is to be made selling drugs that is the problem. Without all those billions of dollars there wouldn’t be massive drug cartels buying up weapons and killing each other and anyone who gets in their way. Our government estimates that these Mexican drug trafficking organizations gross about $13.8 billion a year selling drugs to Americans, $8.6 billion from marijuana alone. Cocaine is their second most profitable drug. They gross $3.9 billion from that but they are just the middlemen for cocaine which must purchased and smuggled from South America before they bring it in here. Marijuana is their cash cow. Just taking the money they make from that would be a crushing blow to them.