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US Guns infest our North American neighbors
Guns smuggled from the U.S. fuel bloodshed in Canada
The United States is to Canada what Mexico is to the United States: the reason for border trouble. We get illegal immigrants smuggled from Mexico; Canada gets illegal guns smuggled from us.
But who, pray tell, gets the worst of it?
Much is made about the impact of illegal immigration on states along the southern U.S. border. But what about the impact of illegal weapons making their way into the country to our north?
Smuggled firearms from the United States are fueling bloodshed in Canada. A couple of sentences from a story in The Post this week by William Marsden said it all: Homicides in Toronto spiked to 80 in 2005, from 64 in 2004, and the majority were shooting-related. About 70 percent of the guns used were handguns and automatic weapons smuggled from the United States, police said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/an-american-export-canadians-dont-want-illegal-guns/2016/02/19/b65d7b72-d69a-11e5-be55-2cc3c1e4b76b_story.html?utm_term=.c240a691f5da
The United States is to Canada what Mexico is to the United States: the reason for border trouble. We get illegal immigrants smuggled from Mexico; Canada gets illegal guns smuggled from us.
But who, pray tell, gets the worst of it?
Much is made about the impact of illegal immigration on states along the southern U.S. border. But what about the impact of illegal weapons making their way into the country to our north?
Smuggled firearms from the United States are fueling bloodshed in Canada. A couple of sentences from a story in The Post this week by William Marsden said it all: Homicides in Toronto spiked to 80 in 2005, from 64 in 2004, and the majority were shooting-related. About 70 percent of the guns used were handguns and automatic weapons smuggled from the United States, police said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/an-american-export-canadians-dont-want-illegal-guns/2016/02/19/b65d7b72-d69a-11e5-be55-2cc3c1e4b76b_story.html?utm_term=.c240a691f5da
Mexico Gun Trafficking Benefits Nearly 50% US Dealers: Study
A new study found that nearly half of United States firearms dealers are economically dependent on demand from Mexico, while under 15 percent of illicitly trafficked arms are seized at the border, highlighting the US role in Mexican gun violence.
The study, titled "The Way of the Gun: Estimating Firearms Traffic Across the U.S.-Mexico Border," aimed to quantify the US role in feeding Mexico's gun violence, which continues to rise despite tight gun control policies and a lack of arms manufacturing in Mexico.
Researchers found that from 2010 to 2012, approximately 46.7 percent of US firearms dealers depended on business from the US-Mexico gun trade for their economic survival.
Comparing the periods 1993 to 1999 and 2010 to 2012, University of San Diego researchers found that the sale and value of firearms destined for Mexico has grown significantly. In the most recent period, 2.2 percent of US firearm sales were destined for Mexico, compared to 1.75 percent in 1993.
http://www.insightcrime.org/news-briefs/san-diego-university-study-mexico-gun-trafficking-us
A new study found that nearly half of United States firearms dealers are economically dependent on demand from Mexico, while under 15 percent of illicitly trafficked arms are seized at the border, highlighting the US role in Mexican gun violence.
The study, titled "The Way of the Gun: Estimating Firearms Traffic Across the U.S.-Mexico Border," aimed to quantify the US role in feeding Mexico's gun violence, which continues to rise despite tight gun control policies and a lack of arms manufacturing in Mexico.
Researchers found that from 2010 to 2012, approximately 46.7 percent of US firearms dealers depended on business from the US-Mexico gun trade for their economic survival.
Comparing the periods 1993 to 1999 and 2010 to 2012, University of San Diego researchers found that the sale and value of firearms destined for Mexico has grown significantly. In the most recent period, 2.2 percent of US firearm sales were destined for Mexico, compared to 1.75 percent in 1993.
http://www.insightcrime.org/news-briefs/san-diego-university-study-mexico-gun-trafficking-us
The easy access to guns in the USA plagues not only our country, but our neighbors on the North American continent as well.
Support a Democrat who supports sensible gun control legislation and put a stop to the madness.
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US Guns infest our North American neighbors (Original Post)
billh58
Sep 2016
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saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)1. K&R
Any data on Russian and Asian gangsters in Canada using access to US weapons?
Drug smuggling is an international problem. I favour making marijuana legal, not addictive substances like cocaine, heroin, prescribed pain killers and sedatives.
billh58
(6,641 posts)2. Guns which are easily
purchased in the USA (legally and illegally) are found all across the world. The ease with which a criminal can obtain a gun in this USA is known, and ridiculed, by all civilized nations.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)3. Thank you, we agree.
flamin lib
(14,559 posts)4. The US is becoming the pariah of the rest of the world over our stupid gun rights movement. nt