AZMEX EXTRA 7-2-18

AZMEX EXTRA 7 FEB 2017


NOTE: No, did not make this up. As usual, many of the numbers suspect.
Mesa, AZ has a very high rate of "civilian" firearms ownership, but very little violent crime.
¿Por Que?

Who is "WOLA? https://www.wola.org
Gracias


Every year 213 thousand weapons arrive from Mexico from the USA

The Center for American Progress warned that the "unbridled" trafficking of weapons is a key factor in the figures of homicides in the country

02/06/2018 15:31 NOTIMEX

http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2018/02/06/1218550

In August of last year, in Military Camp Number 1, elements of the Sedena (Mex. Army) destroyed firearms seized from members of criminal groups. Photo: Cuartoscuro

MEXICO CITY

The Center for American Progress warned that every year about 213,000 firearms arrive in Mexico from the United States, which has been a key factor in the figures of homicides in the Latin American country.

In the study: "Beyond our borders. How mild US laws on firearms contribute to violent crime abroad ", the center draws attention to the export of lethal violence to other countries.

He reports that, according to the US Government Accountability Office, almost half of the US-origin firearms recovered in Mexico are long guns, and include high-caliber semiautomatic rifles, such as AK and AR-15 variants.

This is a concern for Mexican law enforcement officials, who have reported that assault rifles have become the weapons preferred by Mexican drug trafficking organizations, in part because they can easily become automatic rifles, "he noted.

In that regard, the Center underscored that the impact of unrestrained arms trafficking from the United States to Mexico has been devastating.

You may be interested: Mexico responds to WOLA and asks to review arms trafficking in the US

In 2017, he added, Mexico reached its highest level of homicides in the last 20 years, with a rate of 20.5 per 100,000 people, and where access to firearms has been a key factor in the increase of this crime .

In 1997, 15% of homicides in Mexico were committed with a firearm, however, in 2017 that percentage increased to approximately 66%, he said.

The Center for American Progress notes that much of the discussion of armed violence in the United States focuses almost exclusively on the scope and scale of armed violence in that country.

However, he stressed that this conversation often does not consider how the confluence of high levels of arms manufacturing and gun ownership in the United States, together with the numerous gaps and weaknesses in gun laws, results in the export of lethal violence to other countries.


It may interest you: WOLA: continues arms trafficking to Mexico
http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2015/04/17/1019238.
(Seems to be no mention of the Obama regime "Fast & Furious" which shipped many weapons to Mexican drug cartels during this time period. But then Mexican Lives didn't Matter)


Therefore, he stressed that lawmakers in the United States have a moral obligation to take measures to strengthen the gun laws in an effort to improve public safety inside and outside the borders of the USA.

The Center for American Progress reports that, since the early days of his presidential campaign, a constant refrain by Donald Trump has been the need to protect the United States from foreign threats, particularly violent crime that he falsely (?) claims that (illegal) immigrants in this country have committed with high rates.

However, the degree to which the export of violence goes in another direction, that is, from the United States to other countries, and, in particular, the substantial role of that nation in the supply of violence, is often overlooked in this debate. weapons that are used in lethal violence in other nations, he concluded.

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