During
his visit to Mexico last week, President Obama suggested that
Americans are partly to blame for the appalling violence associated
with the illegal drug trade there. Senior Editor Jacob Sullum says
Obama is right that the U.S. is largely responsible for the carnage
in Mexico, which claimed more than 6,000 lives last year. But he
argues that the problem is neither the drugs Americans buy nor the
guns they sell; it's the war on drugs our government has drafted
the rest of the world to fight. Instead of acknowledging the havoc
caused by drug control, Sullum writes, the Obama administration is
using it as an excuse for an equally vain attempt at gun
control.
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