Alrighty, here's the skinny on it.
The US "War on Drugs" is sadly the cause of this tragedy. How refusal to understand drugs, drug use/abuse, and how to properly handle it had made smuggling drugs profitable. This money is being funneled into these cartels at an alarming rate. The Mexican government hasn't been able to keep them in check for a while. These cartels have become known for their cruelty. In addition to bringing in the innocent families of people they thing have wronged them (and usually killing, if not torturing them), they take random people off the streets.
They take tourists they think they might get a ransom for, or even just the money in their pockets... The violence is incredible. I'm sure some of you have heard of the travel warnings Mexico has? Drug cartels are why.
It would be easy to make this go away. Everyone but the US government (including the Mexican government, who is begging us to do something) has admitted the War on Drugs as a failure. We can patrol all of our boarders with enough efficiency to keep out smugglers. In fact, these organizations usually don't care when they are caught. They move more product that they have to so that they can counter the possibility of getting caught. Drug prevention methods don't work because the programs we have only focus of peer pressure and "Drugs are bad, m'kay", instead of thinking to teach children how to get natural highs (such as pride in a good grade or scoring a goal-point in sports). On top of that, these programs usually lie/distort information to their own purposes.
These people died for nothing. It makes my blood boil and my heart weep at the same time. Their lives were taken from them for no reason... 50,000 people for nothing.
The US "War on Drugs" is sadly the cause of this tragedy. How refusal to understand drugs, drug use/abuse, and how to properly handle it had made smuggling drugs profitable. This money is being funneled into these cartels at an alarming rate. The Mexican government hasn't been able to keep them in check for a while. These cartels have become known for their cruelty. In addition to bringing in the innocent families of people they thing have wronged them (and usually killing, if not torturing them), they take random people off the streets.
They take tourists they think they might get a ransom for, or even just the money in their pockets... The violence is incredible. I'm sure some of you have heard of the travel warnings Mexico has? Drug cartels are why.
It would be easy to make this go away. Everyone but the US government (including the Mexican government, who is begging us to do something) has admitted the War on Drugs as a failure. We can patrol all of our boarders with enough efficiency to keep out smugglers. In fact, these organizations usually don't care when they are caught. They move more product that they have to so that they can counter the possibility of getting caught. Drug prevention methods don't work because the programs we have only focus of peer pressure and "Drugs are bad, m'kay", instead of thinking to teach children how to get natural highs (such as pride in a good grade or scoring a goal-point in sports). On top of that, these programs usually lie/distort information to their own purposes.
These people died for nothing. It makes my blood boil and my heart weep at the same time. Their lives were taken from them for no reason... 50,000 people for nothing.
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