Quote:I'm not denying that, but how did the cartels become so powerful, go back and look at the history of the cartels. Also worth mentioning many of the cartels firepower comes directly from the United States government, aka Fast and Furious and the programs before it. 

 

The problem TODAY in Mexico is the police are out numbered and out gunned. That problem didn't start with the police being out gunned, it started with a criminal organization able to control cities of disarmed citizens. The Cartels where able to make essentially slaves out of cities of disarmed public and drive massive profits selling narcotics in the United States. They then used that money to buy government officials and military grade weapons. The politicians they didn't buy they killed and no you have the modern day Mexico.

 

Without a disarmed populace you wouldn't have had the capture of countless cities to convert into slave camps and make them money. 

 

Thanks for agreeing with me.

 

"The problem today in Mexico the police are out numbered and out gunned."

 

Nobody is denying an armed populace would have helped prevent the power rise of the cartels.  I'm as pro 2nd amendment as anyone else.  However, it wouldn't have stopped the cartels.  The cartels rose from small, rural areas where they were the most powerful entities in town. 

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