“Do you seriously think that legalizing drugs will make the drug gangs shrug, get legal and give up probably about 50% of their profits?”
Did I say anything about legalizing drugs? But then again you probably mean de-criminalizing drugs. All drugs are legal unless the government makes them illegal.
But now you are changing the subject to tax evasion instead of drug usage. You deal with tax evasion by lowering the taxes to the point were they are nit worth evading or up the penalties for non-compliance. Or do you want to hear about
Prohibition and revenuers? Or maybe cigarettes and taxes ala NYC?
Our government and our society has decided that we will not punish users in a severe enough manner as to eliminate usage. All I said was that so long as there is a demand for the drugs now deemed illegal there will be supply. Do you argue that point? So long as drugs are illegal only criminals will have drugs.
“...Get these people working and respected and they won’t be doing Chinese made drugs smuggled by the gangs through Mexico.” As a resident of a pre-Trump despair area I call BS on your nonsense.
“...means that we have a serious problem here and Mexico is not capable of dealing with it.” Why is an incident in Mexico mean that “we” have a problem? The fact that the gang may have rolled in from Texas indicates that the US has a problem it is inflicting on Mexico.
I live in the South and virtually all of our serious drug users are young to middle age white guys from the rural areas who just simply lost their reason for being or never had one. The work their fathers did is gone, the support they got from the establishment was nil - remember the “deplorables” - but Trump is restoring their jobs and their respect. And this is true for the black population, too.
The fact that some trucks had Texas plates doesn’t have mean we’re responsible - it means that the Mexican gangs have blatantly infiltrated the US, and we need to do something about this.