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Mexico’s child vigilantes
Washington Post ^ | Feb 7, 2020 | Kevin Sieff

Posted on 02/09/2020 4:31:58 PM PST by Leaning Right

AYAHUALTEMPA, Mexico — Before he picked up a rifle and joined a squad of armed children, Alex wanted to become a schoolteacher. He’d teach anything — “whatever the principal asks” — because spending his days in a classroom sounded pretty good.

He was 13, a B student with a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles bicycle who got nervous around the girls in his middle school.

Then, in November, as violence surged in the mountains of Guerrero state, the men of Ayahualtempa decided it was time for their sons to take up arms.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Mexico
KEYWORDS: banglist; mexico; militia; vigilantes
From the article:

Auto defenses, or self-defense forces, are legal in Guerrero state and recognized by the federal government.

1 posted on 02/09/2020 4:31:58 PM PST by Leaning Right
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To: Leaning Right

In other words, a well regulated militia.

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2 posted on 02/09/2020 4:33:47 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Lurker

Nothing in Mexico is well-regulated.

One of my church choir members is from Acapulco, in Guerrero state. It’s as bad as Sinaloa or Michoacan now.


3 posted on 02/09/2020 4:35:26 PM PST by Tax-chick (You're only one book away from a very good mood. (Washington County, UT, Library)
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To: Leaning Right

He just picked up a rifle?

Like it was just laying around?

Mexico has some of the “toughest” gun control laws on the planet. It is nearly impossible for a law abiding Mexican citizen to legally own a legal rifle.

There is exactly ONE legal gun store in the entire country open to the public.


4 posted on 02/09/2020 4:40:08 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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To: 2banana

The article mentions that the militia’s rifles are old hunting rifles. But I’ll bet you a dollar that the cartels are armed with more than old hunting rifles.


5 posted on 02/09/2020 4:53:05 PM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: 2banana

‘’law abiding Mexican’’. Now there’s a contradiction in terms.


6 posted on 02/09/2020 4:53:39 PM PST by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: Leaning Right
But I’ll bet you a dollar that the cartels are armed with more than old hunting rifles.

Well, Obama gave some of them M-16s, so yeah.

7 posted on 02/09/2020 5:01:15 PM PST by libertylover (Democrats hated Lincoln too.)
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"But I’ll bet you a dollar that the cartels are armed with more than old hunting rifles."

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No bet.

0b0z0 & Holder armed them. (Remember "Fast & Furious ?)

TXnMA
  

8 posted on 02/09/2020 5:01:47 PM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's alias | "Islam": Allah's useful idiots | Brennan & 0b0z0: Islam's useful idiots)
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To: Leaning Right

The headline and excerpt of this article is plenty for me.

Washington Post!!

Bring on the Pulitzer. It sounds like the Post’s Janet Cook with her made up story of Little Jimmy’s World” where he was raised in cocaine filled world. The Post (editors Woodward and Bernstein) new the series was fiction before the Pulitzer was awarded to her, but they continued to push to ensure they got it.

Lying is a habit for libs.


9 posted on 02/09/2020 5:08:08 PM PST by oldplayer
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To: oldplayer

I don’t know how fake this article is. But if the snip below is true, I’d sure as hell would train and arm my kids if I lived in that town.

“Last month, 10 musicians from those towns traveling to a concert were shot and burned beyond recognition. One of them was 15 years old.“


10 posted on 02/09/2020 5:15:06 PM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Leaning Right

Oh, I’m sure some or much of it is true. It is a war zone down there. I would want my kids to have a chance.


11 posted on 02/09/2020 5:16:39 PM PST by oldplayer
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To: Leaning Right

12 posted on 02/09/2020 5:45:25 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: 2banana

“Mexico has some of the “toughest” gun control laws on the planet. “

Let’s hope the ones immigrating here hate the filthy Mexican gun laws enough to not vote democrat.


13 posted on 02/09/2020 5:47:45 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Lurker

Guerrero is the WORST part of Mexico and has been for a long time.


14 posted on 02/09/2020 7:14:47 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I love BULL MARKETS!)
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