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This Is What Happens to a Disarmed Populace: Mexico Home to 29,168 Murders in 2017

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Imagine the murder and mayhem in Chicago’s crime-infested neighborhoods extrapolated to an entire nation. That would be Mexico, with a reported 29,168 murders in 2017. The AP has the sad, pathetic story . . 

The number is the highest since comparable records began being kept in 1997 and is also higher than the peak year of Mexico’s drug war in 2011, when there were 27,213 killings.

Mexico record homicides in 2017

The Interior Department, which posted the number, reported the country’s homicide rate was 20.5 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2017, compared to 19.4 in 2011.

But Mexico security analyst Alejandro Hope said Mexico’s murder rate is probably higher than the Interior Department statistics show, because the department does the per 100,000 count based on the number of murder investigations, not the number of victims, and a killing may result in more than one victim.

Hope says the real homicide rate is probably around 24 per 100,000.

Mexico record homicides in 2017

Yes, Mexico does a passable imitation of looking like a third-world sh*thole. Between the drug dealing gangs, a corrupt government, cops on the take and a military operating with impunity on native soil, Mexico lacks the rule of law. And the people pay the price.

Law-abiding everyday Mexicans have little to no effective means to fight back against their corrupt .gov officials and the crooked cops. Not at the ballot box or the ammo box. While the right to keep and bear arms is enshrined in the Mexican Constitution, it has little to no meaning on the streets.

Not my circus, not my monkeys?

Criminality is a Mexican export; drug gangs are well established in American cities, increasing crime and corruption wherever they operate.

The poverty created by Mexican corruption increases illegal emigration to America.

And American anti-gunners are bound to use Mexico as an excuse to institute an new “assault weapons” ban if (when?) they federal power.

In short, Mexico’s murder rate is just another reason to stay active and engaged supporting and defending your Second Amendment rights. So your neighborhood doesn’t one day look like Acapulco or Nuevo Laredo.

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  1. New? I have a Stag 9 that I bought a couple of years ago. It’s been a great carbine, BTW. It was not cheap, though – around $800.

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  2. Yes, as a result of this “news story”, it will reinforce some Rhode Island legislators belief that we have a gun problem. Soon, if not already, they will introduce legislation to ban standard capacity magazines and certain modern sporting rifles and prohibit state pistol permit holders from carrying in schools, grades 1 through 12 where it is still legal. Soccer moms and dads from Barrington wearing red tee shirts will gather at the State House to chant. This happens every year.

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  3. Semantics…. they write it off as a “developing nation” and exclude it from any statistics they need to gerrymander in order to prove (prove I tell you!) that gun control works!

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  4. OK let me get this right… it’s a $130 pistol that will kill.
    It will fit in a purse really nice.
    It does feel really good, and also it shoots the same way.
    As for the trigger failing to advance post shot to it’s original position, do you really believe that is the norm? Really, do you have any idea of how much bureaucratic bull-feathers a manufacturer has to go through to introduce a new fire arm to the market? Well then you don’t know shinola…

    I speak in regards to the .25 ACP version of the essentially same gun. With all it’s bad press.

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  5. no thanks

    my shockwaved 10.5 in 5.56 twist puts them all touching at 50 yards and less than 9″ grouping at 300 with $7.57 a box wal mart ammo and a red dot and bone stock single stage mil spec trigger shooting from a bench rest

    total invested: less than $900 all in including the optic

    upper receiver: hardened arms sdx mk ll mlok rail 1/7 twist
    lower receiver: edc tactical sniper gray cerakoted cnc billet
    lower parts kit: black rain ordinance
    bolt carrier group: palmetto state armory
    complete stock kit: kak industries
    red dot optic: vortex sparc ar
    weapon light: streamlight 350 lumen
    furniture: hera arms pistol grip guntec mlok rail panels mako hand stop
    linear comp: rj tactical bmc ultralight

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  6. It’s obvious all the gun grabber politicians are now going to have to re-define the meaning of “bayonet lug” as a factor in “assault weapon” bans.

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  7. The Anti’s are already formulating their Ban Legislation, you will have 3 months to turn them all in, or risk becoming a felon…

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  8. I’m sure the military is looking at new options all the time. And some special services use different weapon, but it will be a long time before the overall military goes away from the 5.56 because of the ease of shooting and ammo.

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  9. I wholeheartedly agree with Mr. Farnam. This is the approach I have since I began building my own rifles. As it is a money driven “hobby”, I chose the AR platform and the 5.56mm caliber due to the reasonable pricing, availability, and interchangeability across the board. Fortunately for our Military, their continued use of the 5.56 is still strategically viable since their opponents are comparably equipped. Advances in ammunition also have helped. And when there is a need for a “better” gun, they build as needed such is the case with the Marines and Special Ops Group. When you’re buying millions of rifles and gazillion rounds of ammo on the tax payer’s dime, I don’t want them to all be set up with HKs and 308s. Lastly, this new Valkyrie round does have my attention.

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  10. This article couldn’t have been timed better. Just arguing with some idiot on reddit, i know i know. He was trying to tell me how much the “5.56” has improved and is a great round and doesnt need replacing. This article made my day as I was able to use it for my argument. thanks gents!

    btw i fully agree with the viewpoints in the article. cheers!

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  11. Ok, so Mr. Farnam has convincingly stated a problem with the status quo as he sees it. And his suggested solution to said problem is…What, exactly?

    One of my first (and in hindsight best) bosses in my career taught me early on that if you’re going to voice something you see as a problem, you damn sure also come with an idea for a solution. Whether it’s the right solution or not can be discussed and debated, but if you only state the problem and don’t propose a solution, you’re just whining…

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  12. 9 out of 10 bears surveyed said ‘bear spray makes you taste like blackened chicken’.

    Just kidding, we only found 6 bears, and three of them spoke Canadian.

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  13. Bardella ought to be careful before he goes down the what “murderers look like” road. It doesn’t lead to where Democrats want to go.

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  14. I understand the giggles about anonymously “self-“registering another person. That was mentioned in this USNews piece, but not in the SFGate piece it links to, and bill itself attempts to prohibit anonymous registration.
    http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1927 says
    “The department shall ensure that the Internet-based platform does all of the following credibly:
    (1) Verifies the identity of a person who opts to register or requests removal.”

    The bill doesn’t explicitly state whether these newly self-prohibited persons in the California Do Not Sell List will also flow to the state’s Armed Prohibited Persons System (APPS), to arrange a friendly visit by helpful DoJ agents to assist them in relieving themselves of any firearms already in their possession.

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