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In Mexico, regular folks go to jail for merely owning a firearm. There's you explanation for that. In a free society, gangbangers are afraid to show their faces for fear of being shot or strung up. Only with the cooperation of the state (ready to prosecute those who exercise social power against criminality) can criminal gangs rule the streets.

And that's how it is here increasingly. I saw people on those Ferguson threads (which I pretty much didn't participate in) asking why store owners didn't shoot the looters. It's simple. They didn't want to go to jail or ride the needle. The state routinely prosecutes folks who defend themselves and their property. There's a pharmacist from Oklahoma City who will attest to that from his prison cell.

You mean the guy who shot the 16 year old once, then went after the other robbers, then came back in and shot the kid five more times? That's not self defense, that's an execution. Even the prosecuter seemed to leam towards the pharmacist being justified, up intil he came back and ahot him five more times

No. The explanation is that in Mexico the cartels control the police and the state in many areas. Part of your response supports that.

Nobody is going to shoot or string up any gang members. Not unless you have a bigger and better gang.

Mexican citizens have a constitutional right to keep arms in their home and in the hunting field.
Many restrictions and much paperwork is required. There are a lot of deer, dove, and duck hunters in Mexico.

And again, where the cartels are in charge it ain't going to happen.
These areas are prime examples of what happens when gangs control cops.