There is only one gun store in Mexico. It’s located in Mexico City and is run by the Mexican Army.

Mexican citizens who wish to purchase a gun must get a permit from the military and submit to a medical and psychological exam. Processing time for permits is four to eight months, and the permit must be renewed annually.

Each owner can have up to 10 guns, but only 2 can be handguns. The amount of ammunition that can be purchased is also regulated. Some types of ammo are restricted to no more than 200 rounds every six months.

Yet despite these extensive gun control measures, Mexico outranks the United States on every measurable statistic related to violent crime and murders. And these statistics don’t even include the recent surge of violence in Mexico since 2006. (Unfortunately there isn’t a tab for comparing beheading statistics…)

Mexican citizens used to have a constitutional right to bear arms, but the government decided to change that in the 1960′s. In 1995 they created the one store solution that exists today.

The situation in Mexico now is arranged so that only the corrupt government, corrupt police force, and criminal organizations have the guns.

A citizen who wants to protect himself or his family has the choice of breaking the law and illegally obtaining a firearm, submitting to a prohibitive government bureaucratic process, or sitting quietly and waiting to be beheaded.

Next time you hear a member of our current administration in Washington DC talking about reigning in these crazy gun owners, think about Mexico. Should we really be looking to Mexico as a template for anything?

And before it gets brought up, let me debunk the fallacy that loose gun control laws in the US contribute to violence in Mexico…

Think about that for a second. Even if a crate of so-called “assault weapons” were legally purchased in the US via “loose gun control laws,” how did they get to Mexico? It’s not legal to bring them there. So anyone bringing guns into Mexico would be breaking the law.

It is illogical and disingenuous to claim that more gun control in the US would have any impact on Mexico. Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder, and President Feckless, I’m looking in your direction.

I’ll end by letting the NRA sum it up. They have a little more experience in this fight than I do, so they have the edge on eloquence:

“Mexico has very strict gun laws, which clearly have done nothing to prevent criminals and drug cartels from obtaining firearms, and it’s left many of the honest residents of Mexico defenseless,” said Chris Cox, chief lobbyist for the National Rifle Association.

“I don’t think anybody could argue that Mexico’s gun-control laws have been an effective crime-fighting tool.”

Indeed.

Source: AZ Central

Update: Fox News also takes on the myth of guns from the US entering Mexico.