Will Jamaica Become the New Mexico?

This isn’t whether Jamaica will become a state such as the very American state “New Mexico,” but whether the Jamaican drug war will be seen as the new Mexican drug war, as in the one happening south of our border.

The Associated Press is reporting that “Guns from America fuel Jamaica’s gang wars ,” but of course fails to mention anywhere in the lead that the problem isn’t one of American imports, but rather a homegrown criminal enterprise that is really fueling this war. Much like the “conflict” in Mexico, the mainstream media fails to grasp that the war is over drugs and that the issue of where the guns come from is moot.

The article even highlights the fact the fact that law enforcement officials are often times the suppliers:

“Besides coming in on freighters, authorities say, guns are stolen or purchased from crooked police or in ‘guns-for-ganja’ deals by fishermen, who bring homegrown marijuana to nearby Haiti and return with pistols, revolvers and submachine guns – many of them believed to be from the U.S. as well.”

And the fact that guns are coming from Haiti, “believed to be from the U.S.” just sets up the next MSM story: “U.S. Guns Fuel Haitian Gang Wars.”

Hey, no one is buying our cars anymore. Maybe we should be happy we have such a popular export in firearms. The Soviet Union and various Warsaw Pact nations never minded exported firearms. But then again, look how that turned out. Then again, China was also a major exporter of guns…