Please keep us informed on how this works out legally and otherwise.
As article states, I suppose statistically all the glory may not be due to the law, but I can tell you that as a Jackson resident at the time, the constant robbery headlines stopped shortly thereafer.
The car-jackings did however seem to increase. :dubious:
ha ha!! You are so right!
No shit. I don’t understand all these Americans still vacationing in Mexico-- I mean, you’d think beheadings would be enough of a reason to plan to visit other destinations, but I guess not.
But to vacation with your new born in a mansion, with the windows open, without security. . . aye. They are very lucky they all came out of that ok.
Do you mean near Tulum, MX? Pueblo Tulum and south through the biosphere and on towards Punta Allen are far from underdeveloped and cheap. Having a house in the biosphere preserve is a pain in the ass, but the military is usually within a few kilometers camped out on someone’s beach. Also, nearly everyone down there with a largish house not in a development has full-time security. It’s cheap and worth it.
Last I knew, no tourist had lost there head here. There is too much violence here but it is rarely against tourists. Crimes like the one the OP describes happen in your country also.
I don’t see any glory at all. The article mentions a fluctuating rate of justifiable homicides, not an amazing drop in home invasion rates.
I wanted to add: unless you think that newspapers deciding to stop following the story is evidence of lower rates? I would disagree.
So the media opted out of reporting them, but you assert they were still taking place on the same level? How would that benefit the news outlets?
Well, for instance, perhaps the owners/editors of the newspaper WANTED a Castle Doctrine law so they played up home invasions. After the law was passed, they have no interest in reporting a lack of change in home invasion rates. Or perhaps, they simply found some new shiny story to follow. Stories get dropped all the time; it’s hardly conclusive evidence that the problem went away.
This is crude but…
Two words: Fuck Mexico.
Crimes like these are frequent in the US. Here are a couple that had even worse outcomes for the victims. So shouldn’t you say fuck the USA also? Or anywhere else there is violent crime?
http://www.capecodtoday.com/news/CWN/2012/05/22/fourth-suspect-arrested-in-wareham-home
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/6789102-connecticut-home-invasion-rape-murder-and-arson
Dude/Dudette, they fuck donkeys in Mexico. Are you sure you want to continue your plan of action?
Perhaps. But having lived in an area that was heavily affected by the robberies, I remain personally convinced that dead burglar stories led to less burglar stories.
The US at least TRIES to stop that shit.
Calderon is/was either complicit with the complete corruption of the government, or useless against the cartels that really run everything.
I don’t know anything about the new guy elected, but from all reports the elections were rigged, nobody wants him in there but the cartels, and Mexico is basically one big crime state. And it’s expanding into the US.
I still don’t know how that is not worthy of armed intervention, myself.
Do you think we just sit back and let it happen? Do you think we don’t worry about these types of things happening to our own families?
Or is the real reason that you and your pal Tad say such things is because the perpetrators were Mexican and the victims Americans? I have my own opinion on that.
As far as the drug cartels goes, where are they getting the money to fund their operations?
You can have your own opinion on that, but it’d be wrong. I live at the border, I work with a lot of people who return home to Mexico, and I’m sure I know a lot more who are here illegally, and I don’t care. MrTao’s family is Mexican, and they feel the same as I do, so if you are thinking ‘racism’, think again. Where do you think I have my opinions of Mexico? Not from personal experience, that’s for sure. MrTao’s family has moved across town even here to get away from Mexican gangs. It’s not a minor problem.
Mint Julep, mind answering my question as to whether this was near Tulum?
Adding since I can’t edit:
-I worked, past tense, with people who live in Mexico. Laid off now, wheee.
-MrTao’s family is of Mexican ancestry, few alive were born in Mexico; the last matriarch to be born in Mexico died last year. I believe she left Mexico 60 years ago. While they’ve all been here since then, it’s literally on the border, though most of the family is trying to leave this area as well, now that nobody has strong ties to Mexico any longer.
-I blame the Mexican cartels and, to a lesser extent, their government, though it seems so corrupt and overrun I don’t know if there is much of a functioning government anymore.
I do not blame the people or citizens. Nobody does.