Opinion: The calamities of US gun violence are not limited to American citizens. The Mexican Drug War, for example, has been fuelled by lenient US gun laws. A gun made in the US is more likely to murder a Mexican than an American citizen, writes Luis Go...
in the border city of Juárez that read: “No more weapons”. The letters, formed using crushed firearms seized by the authorities, were visible from Texas.. It is the first time a national government has sued gun manufacturers in the US. In addition to financial damages amounting to $10 billion, the suit also seeks tighter controls on sales and better security features on weapons.
The lawsuit calculates that between 342,000 and 597,000 US-manufactured guns are trafficked into Mexico every year. “This flood”, the lawsuit, “is not a natural phenomenon or an inevitable consequence of the gun business or of US gun laws.” Mexico claims the companies have undermined its strict gun laws by designing, marketing and distributing military-style assault weapons in ways they knew would arm drug cartels, thus fuelling murders, extortions and kidnappings.
and dealers from liability, Mexico contends that the law only applies to injuries that occur in the US.Two Caribbean and Central American countries – Antigua and Barbuda and Belize – filed briefs supporting Mexico’s claims. Their lawyers argued that US gun manufacturers “must not be permitted to hold hostage the law-abiding citizens of an entire region of the world”.
As the debate on gun control looms into another standoff in the US, we should remember that the Republicans in the Senate do not only hold the destiny of American citizens in their hands, but also those hundreds and thousands of Latin Americans who have fallen victim to the “ ” of guns flowing from the US into the region. The invisible Latin American hostages of US gun politics surely agree with Miah Cerrillo’s simple yet powerful plea: they do not want this to happen again.
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