# Smuggler's Paradise: Guns, Drugs and Violence in the Southwest Part 1 of 2

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**Created:** [February 25, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smugglers-paradise-guns-drugs-and-violence-in-the-southwest-part-1-of-2/572623 "2011-02-25T20:59:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![alfnumber123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@alfnumber123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alfnumber123)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smugglers-paradise-guns-drugs-and-violence-in-the-southwest-part-1-of-2/572623/1 "2011-02-25T20:59:36Z")

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_– Removed text of Media Matters posting. Full text can be seen at [http://mediamatters.org/blog/201102250023](http://mediamatters.org/blog/201102250023) –_

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**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smugglers-paradise-guns-drugs-and-violence-in-the-southwest-part-1-of-2/572623/2 "2011-02-25T21:09:27Z")

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Reported for copyright violation.

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**Author:** ![Chupacabras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Chupacabras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chupacabras)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smugglers-paradise-guns-drugs-and-violence-in-the-southwest-part-1-of-2/572623/3 "2011-02-25T21:14:54Z")

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> [@alfnumber123](#):
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> Smuggler’s Paradise: Guns, Drugs and Violence in the Southwest Part 1 of 2
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> “This administration does not have the guts to build a wall, but they do have the audacity to blame and register gun owners for Mexico’s problems,” said Chris Cox, the chief lobbyist for the NRA.

Some people disgust me. He’d rather let Mexican police officers and army personnel trying to enforce the law and make their country safer, as well as innocent citizens who are just trying to live their lives, die from assault rifles brought in from the North than give up even one small right.

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smugglers-paradise-guns-drugs-and-violence-in-the-southwest-part-1-of-2/572623/4 "2011-02-25T21:18:08Z")

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Welcome to the board, **alfnumber123**. Please respect our rules on copyrights: if you want to refer to a published piece of work, quote a few paragraphs or less and link to the piece you’re quoting. Since you didn’t post any thoughts of your own and just reposted half of this long MediaMatters blog entry, I’m closing this thread. If there’s a subject you want to debate, open a new thread, state your own position, and don’t quote excessively.