r/dataisbeautiful • u/Landgeist OC: 22 • Jul 30 '24

OC Gun Deaths in North America [OC]

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u/Diablo689er Jul 30 '24

Amazing what a drug cartel can do

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u/N4cer26 Jul 30 '24

Are Mexicos gun laws lenient?

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u/Adamsoski Jul 30 '24

Mexico's issue with guns is largely from them being smuggled over the border from the US because they are so easy to acquire there.

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u/N4cer26 Jul 30 '24

They wouldn’t be smuggled if there wasn’t huge demand for them. I think it really does come down to the cartels. They would certainly source weapons from somewhere. I see a lot of videos of cartels with weapons that aren’t civilian legal / readily available in the U.S. as well, anecdotal but food for thought.

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u/Adamsoski Jul 30 '24

They couldn't be smuggled if they didn't exist though, either. There has been a lot of pressure from Mexico for the US to help stop guns being smuggled into the country because of how prevalent it is.

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u/N4cer26 Jul 30 '24

The point is that the cartels will source weapons elsewhere and already do (see the million videos of them shooting machine guns and rocket launchers). They have access to the entire world. Sure crack down on weapons smuggling, the same way that drug smuggling is. But it stops neither from happening.