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RE: You would think this would bring better awareness
By zmatt on 2/22/2011 10:20:26 AM , Rating: 3
agreed, instead of being offended by it, maybe Mexican authorities could use it as a wakeup call and get off their corrupt bums and do something about it.

By RamarC on 2/22/2011 10:36:10 AM , Rating: 2
I guess you haven't heard that the police are openly attacked in many areas of Mexico. The gangs also target the families of cops and public officials if they don't bow to their pressure. Military forces are often employed to deal with gangs and one shootout in January between 100 soldiers and a gang lasted 6 hours and left 14 dead.

So, corrupt butts are not the problem.

By theapparition on 2/22/2011 11:28:56 AM , Rating: 5

If that corruption were to stop, many of the illegal activities would be severely hampered. Indeed, many families are threatened and that causes a lot of otherwise good people to turn a blind eye, but that situation can't continue to happen. Mexico's military needs to come in and take control of that virtually lawless area.



At its root you have two key problems here.









You offer a completely extraneous argument full of logical fallacies.




I thought you were a conservative, ammohunt?









Conservative yes Libertarian no!

True conservatives believe in a SMALLER government.























Meanwhile the situation improves zero.


Building a huge fence is a pretty cr@ppy solution.









You are the government.




Looks like alot of pot heads visit daily Tech.






You can’t conduct business with these kinds of conditions.





Jason, you have a +1 from me.











By Lerianis on 2/26/2011 5:49:55 PM , Rating: 2
No, what would stop the violence is for the world to realize that they don't have the right to dictate what people put into their own bodies (unless they are causing a direct and imminent physical danger to someone else at that very moment) and legalize the drug trade!

We have tried drug prohibition and it is more and more apparent that it was a lost battle like alcohol prohibition even before it started.

By Adonlude on 2/22/2011 11:33:03 AM , Rating: 5
Every war that America has had anything to do with has been immortalized in video games. I think I've experienced D-Day in 3 different games. Those were my countrymen, my grandparents, and I still played it and didn't feel like I was disrespecting their sacrafice.

Maybe the people of Jauarez should focus on the problem at hand and not waste any more energy over a video game.

By omnicronx on 2/22/2011 11:44:25 AM , Rating: 2
Banning the video game is pointless, but please for the love of god stop pretending as though the people of Juarez are the problem.

You people don't seem to realize how bad it is there, if memory serves it has the highest murder rate of any city in the world per capita and 3 times more murders per year than the the most murderous city in the United States (which I assume is LA which is has 6-7 times the population at least.) Which as discussed is mostly due to massive drug trade north of the border.

I'd rather be dropped smack dead in the middle of Iraq then have to spend a night in Juarez.

By Ammohunt on 2/22/2011 2:48:58 PM , Rating: 1
Looks like Mexico needs a second amendment of its own. You think for a second this kind of cartel crap could happen in the states?

By Lerianis on 2/26/2011 5:51:56 PM , Rating: 1
You are damned well skippy it could happen in the United States. Actually, I'm pretty sure it WILL sooner or later unless we get off the 'illegal' drug prohibition bullshit and realize that it is better to regulate and tax the drug trade.

By Hiawa23 on 2/22/2011 10:42:14 AM , Rating: 2
With all the issues Mexico is having right now, a video game should be the least of your worries...

By omnicronx on 2/22/2011 11:19:41 AM , Rating: 2
As another poster noted, corruption is hardly the issue. The mayor of the town in question constantly has death threats thrown his way and must walk around with a team of body guards for his protection.

Not only that, but you do realize where this town resides right? Their current state of affairs is a direct result of the drug trade with a certain country north of the boarder..

By theapparition on 2/22/2011 11:31:13 AM , Rating: 4
And yet the US doesn't do what it should, all in fear of offending a certain demographic. Political Correctness will be the death of us.

RE: You would think this would bring better awareness
By bah12 on 2/22/2011 12:04:12 PM , Rating: 5
Correct, LEGALIZE IT ALREADY!!! The "war on drugs" has costs FAR more deaths that it has ever prevented. Regulate it, tax the hell out of it and quit trying to regulate your moral beliefs on what one person can and cannot put into their body.

I consider myself a conservative, and even I can see that no good comes from making it illegal. Those who want it can still easily get it, and it forces this very situation of a black market.

Legalize it today, and you save a boat load of money on this un-winnable "war" plus you get a desperately need influx of jobs and tax revenue. Where is the downside?

By omnicronx on 2/22/2011 1:03:54 PM , Rating: 2
And your point is what exactly? The years leading up to the end of prohibition in the United States saw increased consumption rates of 60-70% of pre prohibition levels.

People are going to drink and do drugs regardless of laws, i.e the only Utopian rant going on here is the idea that this is not the case.

Might as well regulate and tax it, and in the process stop wasting billions of dollars in resources trying to stop it.

By RedemptionAD on 2/22/2011 2:05:33 PM , Rating: 2
Alcohol was illegal for 20 years and we know what happened then. Marijuana has been illegal for only about 60 years, you figure out what happened.

By bah12 on 2/22/2011 2:41:20 PM , Rating: 2
What omni said. The only one being utopian is your assumption that it can be stopped. If we had no way of knowing what legalizing it would do, I MIGHT be able to see your point of view. But come on, WE'VE TRIED THIS before aka prohibition. The years during prohibition were far more criminal/violent, than the years before. AND it did not reduce consumption. Hell the mob was born because of prohibition not the other way around.

This isn't up for debate, we have loads of historical data that prove that violence, crime, and consumption INCREASE when you outlaw it NOT the other way around.

Your blatantly false assumption is that alcohol related deaths would go down if we outlawed it, that simply is not the case and we have historical evidence to back it up.

FYI my wife's brother was killed as a teenager by a drunk driver, I absolutely despise people who drive intoxicated. But no matter how illegal we make it, he would have still died (after all the act of driving while intoxicated is illegal but a crap load of good that did). There is no evidence that outlawing anything will curtail that behavior, quite the opposite really.

