{"id":12280,"date":"2019-10-25T01:31:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T01:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=12280"},"modified":"2019-10-25T01:31:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T01:31:25","slug":"lotts-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=12280","title":{"rendered":"Lott&#8217;s Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5495,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.wsj.com\\\/articles\\\/mexicos-soaring-murder-rate-proves-gun-control-is-deadly-11571696723?shareToken=stf416365da7b748bdab3f7c8a6b60de44&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5496,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/crimeresearch.org\\\/2019\\\/10\\\/in-the-wall-street-journal-mexicos-soaring-murder-rate-proves-gun-control-is-deadly&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/crimeresearch.org\\\/2019\\\/10\\\/in-the-wall-street-journal-mexicos-soaring-murder-rate-proves-gun-control-is-deadly\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mexicos-soaring-murder-rate-proves-gun-control-is-deadly-11571696723?shareToken=stf416365da7b748bdab3f7c8a6b60de44\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr.  John Lott had a new piece in the Wall Street Journal<\/a> this week about  Mexico\u2019s extremely high murder rate despite its strict gun control laws.  \u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"528\" height=\"343\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Mexico-Shooting.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Mexico-Shooting.jpg 528w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Mexico-Shooting-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><figcaption>Photo Credit: The Wall Street Journal<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crimeresearch.org\/2019\/10\/in-the-wall-street-journal-mexicos-soaring-murder-rate-proves-gun-control-is-deadly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The figures Lott quotes are staggering:<\/a>\u00a0 with almost six times as many murders per 100,000 people as  in the U.S., Mexico has a serious problem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By all accounts the problem  may be of their own making.\u00a0 As highlighted in the Wall Street Journal opinion piece, Mexico\u2019s strict gun control measures began in 1972  ostensibly to control violence.\u00a0 Presently only 1% of Mexicans possess a  license to own a firearm, obtaining a permit to legally carry a pistol is unheard of and private sales are for all practical purposes forbidden yet since 1972 the murder rate has doubled!\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> While addressing how many of  Mexico\u2019s crime guns come from the U.S., Dr. Lott explains why the 70%  figure cited by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is grossly exaggerated. He points out that number is a select subset of a select subset and the actual number may be closer to 17%. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, it appears evident the bulk of Mexico\u2019s crime guns, often  fully-automatic, are cartel supplied and originate in Central and South  America or other international locations. \u00a0Once again, it is evidenced that when strict gun control laws leave the general population unarmed, vulnerable, and powerless, criminals will feel emboldened.\u00a0 Layer onto this a history of military and police corruption along with a powerful cartel presence and you have the perfect recipe for out of control criminal violence. \u00a0 <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. John Lott had a new piece in the Wall Street Journal this week about Mexico\u2019s extremely high murder&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[999,4876,1982,4877,576],"class_list":["post-12280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-john-lott","tag-mexican-cartels","tag-mexico","tag-murder-rate","tag-wall-street-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12282,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12280\/revisions\/12282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}