Mexico released data showing only an 11% increase in deaths in the ongoing drug wars in that country, which is much lower than recent years. According to their figures, in the 2009-2010 area there was a 70% increase, which interestingly coincides with the ATF deciding that it wanted to be the top supplier of guns to the drug cartels.
I can't wait for the ATF and Justice Department to start using this data to support their argument that their heavy handed and poorly thought out plans show a need for increased firearms laws. In reality, it shows that our justice department (ah, the poor naming conventions) has lost sight of what their job is about. Much like the IRS and Congress, they appear to think that unless they are showing an increase in the work that they do and the number of people that they go after, they will lose their reason for being.
The thing that struck me most is that this item was not a headline on the site, more of a Section G page six item. Almost 13k dead in 9 months and almost 50k overall and it is an "also ran" story. Sad, really.
<Note to self: When scheduling updates for posting, remember to actually finish the scheduling part. Posting almost a week later is silly.>
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