It’s basically Cartel now, but with infighting and civilians dying. If the cartels are made to work out peace between each other or something maybe violence will go down like it did in Medellin. Or maybe that represents a complete capitulation to violent criminals and tells the world that if you break the law it doesn’t matter as long as you have the guns to back it up

Yeah, you’re right. Feeling like dark times are upon us now to find the light. Hopefully it happens soon

So what do you think should be done to make them less violent

Yup

The us government is part of the reason MS13 is as big as it is too. They deported all of the founders in California to El Salvador, where most of them had never lived since their childhoods. In El Salvador the numbers multiplied.

America tries to act like they didn't assist and create these problems with short sighted foreign policy over the last century

Citizens can already get guns in the black market, the problem is the cartels have like military grade weaponry which takes military grade weoaponry to fight back. Otherwise you can expect more massacres as retaliation for the people fighting back

That’s not how it works, especially when the opponents have absolutely no qualms or explanations to give on taking civilian lives

AMLO a coward but I think straight up war with the cartels would end up being a bad idea

It would make things worse

USA never gets held hostage because of economic reasons

Not really there are hundreds of thousands of cartel members and with the weapons they have they can run down entire cities. If the Mexican military is no longer compromised by cartel ties in the government and they work with the people more closely, maybe something can be done about this

Yeah they really could, the vast majority of combatant deaths in the d*** war have been cartel members, even with the corruption

So have a lot of civilians, and that’s why the people need to be empowered economically so they don’t feel the need to turn to joining cartels to make money anyway

Something about this story is very odd

Mex Gov saying it was a mistake but people from that community saying it was targeted.

They say the families were targeted intentionally by a cartel from the neighboring state of Chihuahua — maybe as revenge for the community’s proximity to the local cartel in Sonora, where La Mora is located. The massacre comes amid an intensifying turf war between the cartels that residents had watched nervously for over a year.
washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/how-mexicos-cartel-wars-shattered-american-mormons-peaceful-but-wary-existence/2019/11/07/92d42cdc-0021-11ea-8341-cc3dce52e7de_story.html