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| Three violent issues — one potential solution |
| By minnpost.com - Myles Spicer |
| Published: 08/05/2013 |
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What do the drug wars in Mexico, the high incarceration rate in America and the continuing gun deaths in our country have in common? They are all fueled by one activity: the high rate of drug use by American consumers. Without that appetite, all three would be mitigated, or even eliminated to a large degree. The recent and absurd comment by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, regarding illegal immigrants that, “For every one who’s a valedictorian, there’s another hundred out there … hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert” was quickly condemned by his own colleagues. But it does synthesize why all three of the above issues are connected. In Mexico, the brutality of the drug wars revolves almost exclusively around the business of providing American drug users with supplies of addictive drugs (although rarely by King’s exaggerated human mules across the desert). Eliminate or reduce the market for these drugs, and the dealers and producers would have to find another business. It is estimated that over 70,000 Mexicans have been killed and maimed in these drug wars. Read More. |
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