Posted on 08/17/2016 4:03:30 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
MEXICO CITY – There's just one place in all of Mexico where you can legally buy a gun. It's tucked away in an anonymous building on an army base in the capital, staffed by soldiers.
Those who enter must surrender any cellphones, tablets or cameras, remove caps and pass through a metal detector. Weapons are kept in locked glass cases, unlike many of the 50,000-plus U.S. gun shops where used-gun racks on showroom floors allow easy access and clerks are happy to let you heft an unloaded firearm.
Mexico's constitution guarantees citizens' right to own a handgun and hunting rifles for self-defense and sport. Legally getting your hands on one, however, requires clearing a series of bureaucratic hurdles far stricter than in the United States and, for many, travelling great distances to reach the country's lone gun store.
In fact, most of Mexico's 120 million inhabitants probably don't even know about the Directorate of Arms and Munitions Sales — it is prohibited from advertising any of its goods, or the mere fact that it exists.
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A homicide rate five times that of the United States, and much, much stricter gun control laws.
Who would have thought it?
This article excites the Left to mental self-abuse. They want exactly the same here. Won’t happen in the Free States, and they know it.
“The country recorded more than 164,000 killings between 2007 and 2014, according to official statistics.”
If true this is mind boggling. An eight year death toll that is greater than any of the lesser wars fought in the 20th century.
Why in the hell isn’t this front page news? Trump’s wall is valid for this reason alone.
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