Why do we favor war on the Mexican border over gun control and urban planning?

Why is there no plan for


prosperity in that region? Like gun control, legalization of drugs


and wise urban planning might bring? Why do you favor war instead?|||Perhaps you should read the Second Amendment some time.|||Frank Capoano: The only studies ever done in this area conclude that in areas with higher levels of illegal immigrants, there is lower overall crime. FACT. The researchers attribute it to not wanting to get in any trouble so as not to be deported.





"A study published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas has discovered that while property-related crime rates have not been affected by increased immigration (both legal and illegal), in border counties there is a significant positive correlation between illegal immigration and violent crime. [53] However, crime rates from 1994 to 2005 have declined slightly, despite the fact that both legal and illegal immigration have increased.[54][55] Robert Sampson, Professor in Social Sciences at Harvard University, writes in Harvard Magazine in 2006 that being in the country illegally gives illegal aliens an "extra incentive to keep a clean record and not commit crimes, in order to avoid deportation"





Anyway, to answer the question, it's because people need scapegoats. Why else do you think everyone is so mad at poor people risking everything for a below minimum wage job when the problem clearly lays with the Americans hiring them? No jobs, no illegals, simple as that and yet it's the Mexicans fault, point the finger over there! Everyone wants to have their cake and eat it too.





EDIT: Joe in Texas - It is nearly impossible to keeps guns out of Mexico and Canada because Americans keep selling guns to the criminals there. Only a mentally challenged person would think that adding guns into a society would lower murders instead of increase them. Not that you care, but you can look at the stats of any other western country and clearly see the correlation between guns in America and higher murder rates.|||Mexico has the strictest gun control anywhere. There was a Texan a few years back that drove into Mexico not realizing he had a few shotgun shells from his last hunting trip. He spent two years in a Mexican jail and needed the intervention of the White House to get him free.





So tell me ....how is that Gun Control working out for the Mexicans?





Fizzy Bubbler.. it is impossible to keep criminals from getting guns anywhere. You can pass all the gun laws you want..criminals wont obey them.





Where is it easier for Mexican gangs to get guns?


My guess is they easily get them from corrupt military. We give Mexicans guns to fight the drug cartels and then they sell them.


Did you know that the zeta's one of the two biggest drug cartels was formed by Mexican Special forces personel.








You can take guns away from law abiding citizens, but the criminals will always get them.|||Illegal aliens from Mexico kill more americans than are lost in Afghanistan and Iraq combined every year





FACT





And I am not turning my country into a crackden just to placate Mexico, even if it did help them out. I would sooner see them wipe their worthless country out and kill themselves off before I saw everyone in this country walking around with needles hanging out of their arms, and 50% unemployment with third world status...LIKE MEXICO|||Gun control doesn't work and with hippie liberals in charge of urban planing nothing good can come of it. As for war...what the F are you talking about? The only war is the one against the invaders from the south.|||These are criminals to begin with. Murderers. If you think they won't escalate once they gain ground, take a look at our own fight against mobsters.





Turn them loose into our politics with all of that money?


I pray we don't.|||Because we can't control Mexico's inability to give their people a quality life, so we can only stop them from coming in, so that our quality of life isn't interfered with.|||The Mexican government needs to address these questions, not the US.|||2nd amendment|||I think your name is Stu Pidasso