Sin, Tim, sin is the factor. Cain didn’t need a gun to kill Abel. Greed is here, in bulk. The army trying to control the gun war is armed, but they play by rules. The gun runners and drug dealers and cartels have no rules, so can be more heavily armed. The Mexican cops are dirty, and if not, then dead. Who can control such chaotic madness? Legalize the damned drugs, the cartels will disappear, the gangs will be powerless. Sin will still be prevelant but it will no longer manifest in murder.

I agree with you. We should end the war on drugs entirely. While legalization would bring with it its own set of problems, they are less bad then the current massive violent, bloody, horrible monster that is the illicit drug trade. Even the Economist agrees.

Unfortunately conventional wisdom is that the US public will never support it, probably partly because they don’t see the horror it causes outside of the U.S. and in poor neighborhoods. And so I’d settle for a policy shift that focused onthe nasty profiteering by the gun industry.

It’s time to end this senseless war on drugs which requires drug manufacturers to be more heavily armed than the police. That produces profits for the worst criminals. And fills our jails with needless bodies.