Of course they're involved those savages own and run the country. The Mexican government has completely lost control-- the only way to stop them is to 1. legalize marijuana and lesser drugs in the USA and hit their wallets hard or 2. wage a guerilla type of warfare and pick them out one by one kind of like what we're doing with al queada. Make no mistake this violence is and will continue to spread to the US and no amount of immigration reform will ever stop it.

Mexico has "prided itself" on the fact that drug violence has largely been kept away from Mexico City proper. Therefore, it will be a very serious issue as to whether or not this elevator death indeed was drug related.

Mexico really has a different mentality when it comes to death, maybe because they are surrounded by the atrocities committed by the cartels and corrupt policia they are inured to it. It really makes me mad when I see this pic of such a beautiful, happy, smart young man killed so young and I feel so sorry for his parents. I really wished our country would do something about that hellhole Mexico because that destructive mentality is invading our society...but since there is no oil or money to be gained I doubt our politicians will bother. Too bad we can't move Washington DC to the NM or AZ border, THEN we'd see some change!

yes something must be done about mexico. The worst this gets the more difficult it will be to prevent the spread of violence into our country. The cartels are as ruthless as al queda and the taliban. Why hasn't anything been done to stabilize mexico? Politics of course.

I'm not saying it is connected and the article doesn't say how this young man died but i gotta wonder how many murders are with guns in the fast & furious debacle.

We need answers and obama has to stop covering it up.

Urbanski, you got it. But it must be swift and brutal. There would of course be collateral damage and that would cause the liberals to put a stop to it. Truly as I live and die, the only way to fix that drug problem is just to kill all the members of the cartels. otherwise just learn to live with it.

Pete

It's definitely suspicious. I'd comment more on that but this article seems to have been written with just enough info for one to draw his/her own conclusions, not quite enough info to make reliable assertions about what happened. Interesting that he wanted to pursue Grad. work in journalism overseas - as it appears he was certainly good enough to have been accepted into one the better U.S. Schools of Journalism.

Urbanski - your idea would definitely put some hurt on the cartels, and would probably make enough sales tax $$ to match all of the U.S. govt's income tax revenue with a lot of $$ left over. In addition to lowering the costs of our Crim. J. system. I'd say it's worth a try. Isn't that how you fix debt problems -raise revenues and lower costs? (sure some people will then "legally" abuse it - but those are the ones who would do that anyway...)(also tired the govt being everyone's "mom" on these issues) completely unnecessary!

This is really sad. Journalism in Mexico is very dangerous and journalists get killed there on a regular basis. This guy certainly knew how dangerous things were but he didn't back down from his dreams. Armando is a hero. RIP

Kinda sounds like Chicago, huh?

The American who keeps Mexicans out of the US is a hero.

I feel for this young man and his family. I hope that his death will not be in vain. That people will see that wandering around Mexico (anywhere and for ANY reason) is just as foolish and dangerous as backpacking through Iran or North Korea.

We as Americans have the power to hit Mexico where it hurts. In their pockets. Whether it's by choosing the Caribbean over Mexico for vacations or by quitting the foolish drugs that the cartels keep bringing up here. As business's to stop hiring illegals.

If you want to keep Mexico out of the US, we as a people need to stop supporting them. Since we can't rely on the current administration to do anything about it, we have to do it ourselves.

Something really needs to be done about nationalism and all the other ism's. Are we really so sorry as a human race that we only care about our own countrymen when it is someone of a different nationality? Even our own armed forces when not getting shot at are arguing with each other who is better Marines or Army...(meanwhile the Airforce & Coast Guard who have a higher entrance standard are relaxing in AC/Heated areas with great food mostly saving lives) lol. Pathetic. It all starts when the young growning brain is indoctrinated into the brainwashing in the public schools with school spirit. How many young lives lost or ruined by idiotic juvenile fights and pranks over which schools team is best, etc. Whoever is sitting behind the curtain must really be laughing at us humans, what a pathetic species.

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a
part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as
well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine
own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and
therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." John Donne (from Meditation XVII.)

Jean, Not so fast, here in Chicago we shoot innocent 7 yr old girls. It would have taken some real sand to throw that guy down a elevator shaft. In Chicago the killing is done by cowards. It's a real shame about this kid,in a hopeless economy this kid seemed to be a real go getter.

Many Mexicans are now changing thir minds about capital punishment for these acts by narco dealers.These narcos are are also involved in the kidnapping, rape and murder of very many young woman from Central America and their own country who are forced into prostitution. Obvioulsy you can´t negotiate with these terrorists anymore than you can negotiate with Islamic terrorists. They must be hunted down ,imprisoned or killed if they resist.With.airplanes helicopters and ground troops you can destroy their homes.and attack them frontally wherever they congregate.This cancer and plague can be greatly reduced.Keep strong and focused Mexico!... and rid the world of these devilish terrorists and mass murderers!

@Worm meat

I'm not saying it is connected and the article doesn't say how this young man died but i gotta wonder how many murders are with guns in the fast & furious debacle.

We need answers and obama has to stop covering it up.

Ah, yes. Another shoot-from-the-hip wing-nut conspiracy theory is born! Worm Meat, in typical republiCLOWN nut-job fashion you attempt to place the blame for anything and everything bad that happens in the world on OUR President. If you were posting this nonsense on some right-wing blog, the ease with which you spout your idiocy would probably get you a prime-time cable show on Faux "News". However, in the REAL WORLD your post alerts everyone to the fact that you wear a tin foil hat, live in your mother's basement, and think that Sarah Palin has all of the answers...EVEN the meaning of life!

For starters, you begin (as most republiCONS do) with a LIE. You say, "I'm not saying it [the tragic death of this young reporter] is connected [to the Fast and Furious "debacle"]..." and then the WHOLE POINT of your post is to insinuate that very notion -- "i gotta wonder how many murders are with guns in the fast & furious debacle" and "We need answers and obama has to stop covering it up." In other words, you say, "I am not saying the death of this young man is connected to Fast and Furious, but I think Fast and Furious has something to do with this young man's death." Clearly, Romney isn't the only republican who talks out of both sides of his mouth.

Additionally, it is quite obvious that you have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE relative to the facts about Fast and Furious. You, my friend, have been conned by CONservative blogs, right-wing talk radio, and the republiCON party's primary propaganda machine, Faux "News", into believing (as Stephen Colbert so perfectly put it) that President Obama ordered AG Eric Holder to order the Justice Department to order the ATF to order Arizona gun shops to sell assault weapons to Mexican drug cartels so that border violence would get so out of hand that American citizens would DEMAND that their representatives in congress support strict gun control policies that President Obama has never introduced. This whole conspiracy theory is even more absurd than the whole "birther" nonsense.

Perhaps you should use your head for more than displaying the tricorn hat you wear to Tea Party rallies and do a little research for yourself. There is this amazing little thing called "the google" that you can use on "the internets" to find out just about anything you want to know. Alas, I know that as a card-carrying rightie you have been indoctrinated to believe that the only FACTUAL news comes from the likes of Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, or Bill O'Reilly. After all, "the spin stops here" and they are "looking out for you".

In an effort to help you see how utterly ridiculous your comment is, let me offer two bits of advice. First, check out the links I have provided below to 2 articles from Fortune magazine which PROVE that there is NO Fast and Furious conspiracy or coverup. The takeaway from what ACTUALLY happened with the ATF's Group VII in Phoenix is that there WAS INDEED a bureaucratic failure in our government -- the failure of prosecutors to issue indictments and to authorize the ATF agents to make arrests and intercept the guns before they crossed the border. Another glaring problem that is pointed out in the articles is the lax gun laws in Arizona that: (1) allows straw purchasers to buy, with ease, large quantities of assault rifles that they can then do with as they please; and (2) forbids the tracking of these questionable weapons sales. The republicans' nutty and relentless obsession with the conspiracy theory that Fast and Furious was President Obama's diabolical plan to legislate gun control may end up shining a spotlight on what really happened in Arizona and result in stricter laws regulating the sales of guns. Now, wouldn't that be a hoot!

My other piece of advice to you would be to occasionally turn off the TV or AT LEAST change the channel every now and then. If not, I fear that you might overdose on the Kool-Aid they are serving over at Faux "News".

Urbanski, while I agree with you that MJ should be legalized or decriminalized, that wouldn't do squat towards stopping the flow of illegal drugs nor would it seriously impact the $$$ of the cartels. Marijuana is not now nor has it ever been the major focus of the "war" on drugs. Yes, FDR signed the legislation making MJ illegal federally, but that wasn't really about drugs. It was to preserve his rich friends' wood pulp paper making businesses.

When Nixon coined the term "war on drugs" the primary emphasis was education and treatment, a worthy effort in my opinion. Efforts toward fighting sale and distribution were aimed mainly at cocaine and other more hard drugs. Marijuana was considered a low priority.

Just as then, the real money for the cartels is in meth, coke, heroine and the like. MJ is just pocket change.

Well it damn sure wasn't the elephants...

Aye Dios Mio...Poor Baby should of LEFT THAT LAST KILLING article OF POLICEMAN/COPS/CROOKS/CARTEL that's what threw the CRIMINALS over the EDGE!

Leave that journalism ALONE!Everyone knows they are killing journalist...

What happens is you think you are INVINCIBLE at young age 22 noone can't tell you NOTHING!

Better off in Barcelona...hanging out in Mexico as a JOURNALIST is JUST straight SUICIDE!

MY heart goes out to you and your family....

Aye Por Favor! Gente!

Gun control, Dag! Mexico has very strict gun control laws. You'd be in very serious trouble if you carried a gun there. Only criminals are allowed to have guns in countries with strict gun control laws.

Don't just thank the drug lords.......thank all the potheads and druggies in America who create the demand. Without demand, there would be no supply.

Now, I'm not saying it is the direct fault of a pothead that a cartel member murders someone, but they certainly have some blood on their hands.

Idiot

Once again the brilliance that represents our country is displayed in comments like these.

True, there would be no supply without demand. But there also wouldn't be this kind of violence if the US would give up it's stupid war on drugs.

What LaMorte?

If a pervert pays $ to buy children, is he blameless? Of course not.

If a druggie pays $ to buy drugs, it is the same. The demand initiates the supply. And legalization of pot won't fix it.

Just because you find one morally repugnant and not the other, doesn't mean that the consequences of BOTH are not repugnant.

Ah, it worked when we repealed prohibition. Not all ills are solved of course. But unless, Henry, you're willing to prohibit all sorts of things, starting with tobacco and maybe ending with soft drinks, it's the wrong argument.

Absolutly Legalizing pot is the only answer unless u drop the bomb on mexico...Not only would it hurt the pockets of the drug lords it will freeup police to help guard our borders an the tax to from legal pot sales would help put a dent in healthcare an social security that needs proping up...I Wasnt alive during proabition but seems like the Gangters an mafia were killing left an right to control illegal booze an once proabition was lifted all the gang killings an police shootouts stopped. If anything Pot is less harmful to our socieity then the bunch of drunks driving around an wife beaters an The savings on prob half the prison an jail inmates that are inprisoned just for pot alone would be astronomical

Lonewolf,

You are kidding, your logic sounds like that of a dope head. Our borders would be cleaned up if the Feds allowed the agents to do their jobs.. Yes, dope them, and by all means medicate them...

These people walk around us and breathe our air.

A malfunctioning elevator isn't unheard of in the US. Mexico has got to have a few, too.

Ah yes, I see the usual number of potheads are posting here tonight who want to be able to simply drive down the street to their local pot shop to legally buy their weed more cheaply so they can be stoned 24.7. Grow up already. What is it about your pathetic little lives that you need to constantly get high on something? This country is in no way equipped to deal with what would be the massive societal ills that would result from making drugs legal (I'm not talking about just pot.) And if you think the cartels are just going to magically disappear if drugs were legal, well I can tell you, you've been smoking some bad mary jane. And no Lonewolf, our prisons are not half full of people arrested for pot possession. What a lie.

PS - good post edub

After Prohibition, the Mob tried for over a decade to bring Prohibition back. The bad guys dont want it legal. They cant make the bug bucks when its legal. If its legal, it becomes too much like real work. The profits go way down and the work increases.

The war on drugs is NOT stopping anyone from getting drugs, it prevents nothing. Its just costs and costs and costs...and costs...

All the people saying legalization would bring doom are full of crap. People are already doing drugs, all they want. As much as they want. This war is preventing NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not even keeping it from kids. In fact its probably making its easier to give to kids. WAKE UP!

The border is very long. It would be impossible to guard all of it. Also, in spite of what some conservatives think, many business owners don't want the flow of illegal immigration to stop. They like the much cheaper labor.

But I digress. All the US would have to do in the case of the pot trade is legalize it and let people grow their own or grow it for profit. End of bad pot drug story.

And mob activity did go down. Of course it didn't disappear, they still had gambling and prostitution and other activities to keep them in business but they did become weaker.

Really, about the only illegal booze crimes you hear of these days (by that I mean illegal booze making and distributing) is with illegal pot distillers in the woods, usually in the Atlantic southern states. The reason behind it is that sometimes the product they produce is lethal.

Jean Maybe you need to smoke one then if thats what you beleive...Agents on the Border are sitting ducks to the Man power an finacing the cartels have..The ONLY way your gonna out gun the Cartels is with an Army of our Soldiers an Politicaly That can Never Happen as Mexico is also a Soverign State an we would Have to declare War or Military Policing to go in an do that so even a couple hundred agents on the ground is just meaningless...Anybody got a light?

I can drive down the street to the liquor store, heck to the grocery store, and stay drunk 24/7. I fail to see the difference.

Heh, when I was a teenager it was far easier to get pot than beer and I grew up at a time when the punishments for serving teenagers or buying up for teenagers weren't very strict. Not only the punishments but the enforcements.

To Jac, Im certain as anyone reading my earlier post for me to say Half the inmates in prison is totally Incorrect so If you wanna call it a Lie in your immature wit then your Correct..Happy Now? Oh btw Phamacies are open 24/7 in some places for you Legalized Pill Poppers whom the Government will gladly take thier cut out of ,,wink wink

There is a huge moral difference between an individuals right to ingest whatever they please and a person imposing themselves on a child or another adult....this might seem like common sense to a good person..however, when we have seemingly "intelligent" citizens comparing drug use to pedophilia...well...enough said. Also, its not really the point of the article, and the comment I made was only to point out that most comment boards have statements that resemble a pre-civil rights mindset.

Legalizing pot/drugs is not the answer. Why should we be the ones to have to legalize drugs which would create new problems that would require funding, etc. It's no more than caving in and us having to change rather than stepping up to the plate. If it's not drugs, it'll be something else. And then we start all over again. The answer is putting our foot down and saying enough is enough. Then following through with zero tolerance.

Um, Why is putting our foot down the only answer? We've managed to not put our foot down for so many things. Like alcohol (we tried that) or tobacco (trying it and getting mixed results, god help us if we ever make it illegal). So why certain drugs we don't like? It's interesting that people seem to have a lot of sympathy for prescription druggies and not potheads. Like there is much difference. Frankly the prescription drugs are far more dangerous.

Lastly, Snarky if you want to live in Singapore (where they execute drug dealers and cane drug users) I suggest you move there. I'll never understand why people who demand freedom never seem to want freedom for people who do things they don't like. And what I mean by that is they get upset about things they don't approve of but doesn't hurt anybody.

Well, C123, I don't like drugs in that I've seen the devastation that they cause. Maybe you think that legalizing drugs is the answer but it isn't. I don't particularly care to live in a society where drugs are legal and simply because it was easier to legalize drugs than put our foot down, stand for something in saying enough is enough.

And why don't you move rather than trying to change this country by legalizing drugs. I'll kindly stay, thank you very much.

What I'll never understand is anyone who would legalize drugs, and they will be abused, and rather than standing up to those who are doing what their doing. That's not the America that I know in that at one time we actually stood up to those and made them change their ways if it threatened our way of life. Then again, I forgot, we must show compassion and just legalize drugs. That's the liberal way of doing things and then we wonder why the cartels have no fear of us. Legalizing drugs will not end it but then again, i forgot, liberals don't think that far ahead.

Now fire one up, weed head. Smoke up.

Yet you don't seem to mind alcohol.

The devestation drugs cause is but a pale comparision to what alcohol causes. But my guess is you won't even try to go up against them. I won't simply cause I actually believe in personal responsiblity.

The American I knew believed in freedom and people's personal responsibily. It's weird I sometimes have to go up against people who think the gov't ought to curtail the fast food industry. As far as I'm concerned this is the same thing. You conservatives are just as bad as the liberals you decry. Only they are demanding you stop teasing kids with fatty burgers and sodas.

Last the only fear cartels will ever have of us is if we legalize. Then everyone will start buying from local pot buyers. Some may still buy from mexican suppliers but at reduced prices. Big whoop.

The real money is the distribution of cocaine. So what? We legalize cocaine? Legalize meth in that is also being brought in. Heroin? That as well. Where does it end? It doesn't.

Alcohol and prescription meds are a problem, so let's just add illegal drugs to it and by legalizing them, we'll see the cost for programs, etc sky rocket. Not to mention the cumulative effect it will have on society.

Hamburgers and sodas? Well, if we legalize marijuana, there won't be enough burgers and sodas on hand to feed that hungry crowd with the munchies. But heck, let's just add a cocaine chaser and keep the munchies down to a minimum. Why in fact, we may have stumbled onto the next Atkins diet. It'll all be legal and the cocaine industry will be doing gangbusters! Woo hoo! The recession's over. Drugs are legal and it sure beats those "shovel ready jobs". Just line 'em up and see those job performance evaluations take off.

edub-3853225

Don't just thank the drug lords.......thank all the potheads and druggies in America who create the demand. Without demand, there would be no supply.

Now, I'm not saying it is the direct fault of a pothead that a cartel member murders someone, but they certainly have some blood on their hands.

Blaming Americans for having MEXICAN DRUGS pushed on their children BY MEXICANS since the 1960's is like blaming POWs for having been caught by the enemy.

Freedom4Everyone

After Prohibition, the Mob tried for over a decade to bring Prohibition back. The bad guys dont want it legal. They cant make the bug bucks when its legal. If its legal, it becomes too much like real work. The profits go way down and the work increases.

Oh, yeah. The mob just disappeared when booze was made legal again. GET A BRAIN!

Crime quickly moved from booze to drugs when prohibition was lifted from alcohol. Do the same for pot and you really believe the crooks won't adjust to the next controlled substance there's a demand for. More kids are underage drinking since alcohol is okie dokie for adults. That will be the same message we send to them by legalizing more drugs. Our country is already filled with people looking for the magic pill that cures their ills. Lets make sure we keep the masses fully medicated, they're so much easier to handle that way. Can't wait to get home and fire one up or knock one down. In front of the kids of course.

5 percent of the world's population consumes 86 percent of the world's illicit drugs per OHS website.

Us gross domestic product has correspondingly fallen to less than 3x that of China... where drug penalties are much higher.

There are other factors, but it is an interesting parallel.

Kind of makes drug use sound downright unpatriotic, doesn't it?

The amount of gang members in the US make up the world's 15th largest army. These guys will all go back to school and become model citizens when drugs are legalized? Would you hire these clowns?

Mexico uses drugs to attack America's wealth......their children.

Snarky, your just another ignorant American know it all. Portugal legalized all drugs and guess what? usage went down including pot usage. If all the other European countries did the same as Portugal then this issue on that continent would be minuscule. Heroin use went way down, HIV went way down, crime is non-existent, and those are the facts. Say what you want I feel a ton safer in Lisbon than I do in LA. Your ignorance on this issue is for all to see.

Good idea, keep doing the same thing over and over, decade after decade, which is the true definition of insanity. But reading the idiocy of what is being written here, it just enumerates the stupidity of the American public.

Personally I have no tolerance for druggies or drunks. Take all you want. Just leave the innocents alone when you fade into your drunken/drugged stupors.

I watched a program recently where some science predicted that the Human race will eventually split into 2 species. One highly evolved/intelligent. The second Less evolved/less intelligent/prone to violence.

I wonder if the addicts are the beginning of that split off, the descent into the less evolved.

like in the old Time Machine movie? I believe it.

Smoking Pot isnt an addiction, Its a Choice,,Question of the Day: Name a Plant that is deemed Illegal in the United States?? Answer: Pot....In my 52 years Ive NEVER met a person ADDICTED to POT....Cigs yeah..alcohol yeah ..prescription pills Yeah.. cocaine/crack yeah etc... Pot NO

Yeah, Henry we want to be like China where people have no problem with graft and poisoning people for some extra change. Good one.

And if that's what you really believe Dcindfw how could it possibly make a difference if we legalized pot?

Janine, you mean like Rush Limbaugh?

Or do you mean like those people who can't wait to shoot someone with their guns? I've long thought they were all drunk as well.

Destiny, yeah it's amazing. With a whole bunch of problems the Mexican gov't spends its time attacking our wealth. And they apparently can do this cohesively while their police force are shooting each other in the street.

Just a note Darrel.... He was NOT on assignment for AP. Most likely on assignment for the CIA and was suspected of such.

Ansolutely. My most sincere condolences to all his friends and family. RIP

What a beautiful smile and you can see he is radiating like sunshine. My deepest regrets to his family and his employers. It's easy to see he will be missed. If our world could only get rid of all illegal drugs, what a great place it would be.

What happened is he went to Mexico. I would expct nothing more or less. For now we are safe here in the US, from that at least, another four years of Obummer and we won't be.

I know plenty of folks, myself included who go to Mexico often and somehow we manage to survive. Mexico's a big place; don't relate everything you read to the entire region. That's like me saying I'll never go to Chicago because of the stories we've been reading everyday. Chicago's a great place.

You are a stupidchit.

What is it that YOU mean? Your comment is incoherent.

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He was born in Massachusetts and grew up in Colorado, but he lived for two years as a child in Costa Rica and spent time in Argentina and on the U.S.-Mexico border with his family.

How do you know he was an anchor baby? Waiting to run across the border! Come on he just died and his family is grieving. My condolences to the family. Hope they find the person that did this.

Dumb rednecks out of USA,

NOW!

Popeye, I am not a redneck, but they have just as much right to be here and just as much right to their opinion as you do. What makes you think you are so much better than anyone else? Why don't you leave and start your own land---Liberalland or Narcissa maybe.

Anchor baby? With two parents who have doctorate degrees and are professors? Wrong!

My heart goes out to this young man's family. What a promising life cut short! As for the "anchor baby" comment: how ignorant and inappropriate!

That was a pretty "pathetic" statement. You just did what you accused mas098 of, ie: suggesting that the parents of Amandio are incredible people and yet without a clue as to who mas098 is you suggest his life has no value. Getting pushed into an elevator shaft is pretty harsh regardless of one's history. There is NOTHING in this world worth hurting someone for.

Peace - pass it on!

toolslinger9, only a truly pathetic person would make such an ignorant comment. Hence the 'pathetic life' statement. Get off your high horse before you hurt yourself.

Untill we know what happened we cannot surmize the situation. One thing is for sure: this was a talented young man not afraid to use his talents. For this he will be rewarded. He had great plans also to futher his study in Barcelona, so we can safely say, he had no intention of dying. My sincere sympathy to his family for raising such a couragous young person. They and the world are very sad.

How do you know his parents are "brilliant educators" or how much they have contributed? And this kid wasn't on assignment in Mexico so how do we know why he was there or how "courageous" he was. Me thinks some of you have built this story up in your minds until you have no idea what the truth is. If there is one thing that is sure and certain, it is that msnbc will only give you a few bites to see how many of you will concoct your own version and run with it.

Andy - I have to go there at times for my job. Isn't that a good reason? been maybe 20 times in 12 years. No problems........ever. Mexico City, Monterrey, Pueblo, Juarez, Querataro.....if you stay away from the drug trade, you have a very good chance of NO problems. yes, they have some areas with severe problems. So does Detroit, L.A. , New York , Chicago, Miami, Gary Ind. , how many more do you need reminded of?

And I don't go to the bad parts of those cities either, so what's your point? Even though there's certainly crime in American cities, it doesn't change the fact that it's much worse in several parts of Mexico.

Of course it's not an automatic death sentence if you set foot into a certain city, but at the same time there's a certain level of risk where personally it's no longer worth it. For me, Mexico has passed that point. Additionally, I don't want my money supporting a country that hasn't done enough to combat the problem.

When you consider statistics, the worst city in Syria is actually still safer than Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Guns made in the USA and sold by the A.T.F, covered up by the D.O.J and OK'd by the O.A (obama administration). Do I have that about right Miguel?

The obama administration helped to arm the cartels that are terrorizing your motherland all in order to rile up people such as yourself in order to garner disdain and hatred for guns, guns that drove the mexicans South, the british back across the atlantic and the very same type of guns that protect my home and children inside of it.

But very few are trained well enough to do anything but STILL be shot and then have their weapon taken from them and put back into the hands of another bad guy. The people doing most of the shooting have automatic weapons and don't hesitate. People not used to shooting other people tend to hesitate before pulling the trigger. We need to stop the inflow of weapons from the US to Mexico. It won't stop the violence, but it might slow it down a little.

Far fewer guns come from America than the media would have you believe. Sure, it's a problem, but most cartels use Russian surplus armaments. It's much cheaper, and arguably more reliable. There's a reason why you see so many AK's south of the border (a gun which the Americans have never produced, btw).

Kat, The U.S. Department of Justice along with a couple of other agencies knowingly helped send THOUSANDS of guns into Cartel hands in Mexico, not attempting to track them. This was done without knowledge or consent of the Mexican government. Those guns have been used to kill hundreds of Mexican citizens as well as U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry. These are the ones we KNOW about. Operation Fast and Furious, look it up.

I'm sure the flow of guns into Mexico has significantly slowed now that the DOJ has been caught red handed and stopped the operation.

Ungodliness, followed closely by lust for money, power and sex, and now drugs.

Another incoherent a$$hole.

I agree raggedy handy is a complete ass

And you know this for a fact of course. Jerk.

Why else would he be killed? Simply for being an American? Wrong.

Ask any normal American, who frequents Mexico, what happens white males who walk around treating others as inferiors. They eventually end up with a bullet in their head.