According to most estimates, about 90 percent of all the cocaine flowing into the United States comes from Mexico and about 90 percent of the guns seized in drug-related violence come from the United States.
As long as Latin American narco-lords find it easy to sell cocaine and buy guns in the United States, no government to the south can eliminate them.
Mr. Lott is a former chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission and the author of "More Guns, Less Crime" (University of Chicago Press, third edition, 2010).
The legislation it approved would make it harder for Mexican drug cartels to get their hands on guns sold in the United States and would punish those buying firearms or ammunition for criminals, said the committee's chairman, Sen.
Washington, DC (CNN) -- A new bill would make it harder for Mexican drug cartels to get their hands on guns sold in the United States and would punish those buying firearms or ammunition for criminals, according to senators from both parties, who proposed the legislation.
And with indignation over guns growing in the United States, reforms that Mexico has long awaited may come through, Medina said.
He praised the efforts of Mexican President Felipe Calderon to counter drug cartels, which "have gotten completely out of hand, " but said the United States must take further steps, such as ensuring that illegal guns and cash do not flow from north of the Rio Grande to the cartels in Mexico.
Migration and the trafficking of drugs and guns across Mexico's northern border with the United States capture endless headlines. (This week agents fired at three vans containing 74 illegal immigrants as they failed to stop at a border crossing near San Diego.) But many of these problems are quietly mirrored on its southern frontier.
Guns are easier to acquire (though less so in Europe than in the United States) and easier to use than home-made bombs.
And, unlike guns, the right to own cats is not protected by the Constitution of the United States.
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