That’s right. Mexico is the single biggest reason right now to not have more gun ownership restrictions than we already have. I know some people who grew up in Mexico, and I’ve heard from them some of what happens there. It’s not pretty. I also know a couple of people who have been involved with trying to keep the cartel wars from coming full-scale into the USA.

I’m aware that what I’m saying here could cause some pretty serious backlash, but that’s fine. I want people to think about this – a lot.

Mexico has a huge cartel problem. Drug cartels are armed with tons of guns coming from South America and Central America, as well as being smuggled from other continents like Africa. Over the last couple of years, we learned that they have even been armed with guns that our own federal government forced a store owner to sell to the cartels illegally. Those guns make up a small fraction of the guns that cartels get/have, but that doesn’t make it any better. The cartels have crooked Mexican cops and military members selling them guns from those stockpiles as well. There are plenty of fully-automatic guns in cartel hands.

The vast majority of Mexico’s people have been disarmed through massive gun restrictions and confiscation. Some hid weapons – mostly old shotguns and a few bolt action rifles – just before the ban and confiscation began. Those old (1970s or older) guns are all the citizens were left with to defend themselves against cartels with armored vehicles, machine guns, and grenades.

Anybody who thinks the cartels are getting their guns and explosives from the USA needs a serious reality check. I live in Texas. My grandfather served as the sheriff of a small town during the 1960s-1980s, and I’ve known many other LEOs throughout my life. I’ve learned some about the truth of the situation.

Our law enforcement departments have special task forces assigned to different areas just to stop the drugs and guns that are coming in to the US from Mexico. That’s right, the cartels aren’t getting all their guns here and taking them back to Mexico. They’re getting the vast majority of them from other parts of the world and smuggling them into the US for their distributors, dealers, and enforcers. If it wasn’t for our ATF forcing a gun store to sell guns to buyers that the gun store owner reported to the ATF for illegally trying to buy guns, then those guns would have never made it to Mexico from here either.

So what happens when our country is disarmed completely except for military and police? Well, my instinct and logic leads me to the conclusion that we would end up a lot like Michoacan, Mexico. There are citizens taking up arms with old guns and taking on the cartels. The citizens have even managed to loot some of the cartel members and vehicles that have come through. The people are fighting an asymmetric war, and they’re holding their own. It may sound insane, or like a plot for a movie, but it’s actually happening. Meanwhile, our boarder keeps getting more open and many members of our government are trying to disarm us.

Mark my words, if we let the government that arms cartels start to disarm us, we will end up in the middle of the same cartel warfare, all the way up here in the middle of Texas. They’re already operating in some of the “gun control capitols.” Check Chicago, LA, NYC, etc. And if the rest of us get to their level of gun restrictions, the cartel/gang violence – and violence in general – will spread quickly.