American responsibility for Latin American gun violence

I’ve discussed this before, but the moral argument for an open borders policy is how terribly the United States has screwed up countries around the world. One of the most blatant ways – and one that most Americans really don’t want to see – is that it is our guns that are leading to the horrific violence in Latin America. The Supreme Court hears a case against Mexico and sues the US over it. I don’t believe the Court will do anything but harm here. And Americans are strangely indifferent to us killing each other with our guns, so forget the Mexicans and Salvadorans and the arguments for immigration based on them. But facts are facts and they need attention.

The Supreme Court on Friday decided to decide whether Mexico can sue gun manufacturers in the United States for aiding the trafficking of weapons used by drug cartels.

Mexico indicted seven weapons manufacturers and one distributor in 2021, accusing them of rampant violence caused by illegal arms trafficking from the United States, spurred by drug cartels’ demand for military-style weapons.

“For decades, the government and its citizens have been victims of a deadly flood of military and other particularly lethal weapons flowing across the border from the U.S.,” the Mexican lawsuit said, adding that the resulting carnage was “the foreseeable outcome of the defendants’ intentional acts and business practices.”

Mexico has strict gun control laws that it says make it virtually impossible for criminals to legally obtain firearms. According to the lawsuit, the gun store issues fewer than 50 permits per year. But gun violence is widespread.

The lawsuit, which seeks billions of dollars in damages, alleges that 70 to 90 percent of guns recovered from crime scenes in Mexico came from the United States and that gun dealers in border states sold twice as many firearms as dealers in other parts of the country. country.

It’s all gold for the gun companies. Build that wall! But only one way. The guns must keep flowing south.