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Rural Mexican Villages Dig Moats to Repel Gangsters

Posted by samzenpus on from the filled-with-vicious-man-eating-monks dept.

Some Mexican villages are truly going Medieval on gangsters by digging moats across every access road but one into their communities. The villages have been besieged by armed gunmen who come into town and kidnap people. Government help arrived too late, or not at all. "This was a means of preservation," said Ruben Solis, 47, a farmers' leader in Cuauhtemoc, a collection of adobe and concrete houses called home by 3,700 people. "It's better to struggle this way than to face the consequences."

8 comments

  1. Why the 2nd Amemdment is a Good Thing by Nutria · · Score: 1

    "We aren't able to confront this sort of thing," Solis said. "We have a few shotguns, some .22 rifles, a few pistols -- nothing compared to what they have."

    When you criminalize having guns, only criminals will have guns.

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    1. Re:Why the 2nd Amemdment is a Good Thing by jaxtherat · · Score: 1

      Actually that may have more to do with their means to afford guns as opposed to anything else.

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    2. Re:Why the 2nd Amemdment is a Good Thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That'll all change once they sell enough "Your Kid with the Moat Monster" photos.

    3. Re:Why the 2nd Amemdment is a Good Thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They should criminalize being eaten by the moat monster... that way only criminals will be eaten by the moat monster.

    4. Re:Why the 2nd Amemdment is a Good Thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      > ... We have shotguns, some .22 rifles, a few pistols ...
      When you criminalize having guns, only criminals will have guns.

      Clearly they haven't criminalised having guns then, hey?

      In any case that's just Bullshit. In Australia we have criminalised having guns. And guns are by no means the preserve of criminals. The police and the army, private security guards, professional shooters, landholders, licensed collectors, etc, etc, all still have guns as well. Sure teenage school kids have to do without. That's not necessarily a bad thing though, since we much prefer watching schoolyard massacres happening in your country than ours.

  2. next time you bitch about living in the US by teknosapien · · Score: 1

    Remember this story

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    1. Re:next time you bitch about living in the US by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Remember this story

      I am so tired of people saying "Don't feel so bad about living in the USA! At least we're not as bad off as !!"

      Mexico is not a benchmark you mongoloid.

  3. They have a problem... by Thelasko · · Score: 1

    no one else can help. If they can find them, maybe they can hire... The A-Team.

    If they can't find The A-Team, I hear Micheal Westen is allowed to leave Miami.

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