Drug Violence In North America

Research Paper PS 210
University of Kentucky

Every government in every country and nation, territory and state, is charged with the responsibility of protecting its citizens, and establishing a strong sovereign state for which people may live and prosper safely. The United States government has found its way into societies where it’s not so safe for the inhabitants, where the rule of law is nonexistent, and where fighting terrorists hell-bent on causing widespread violence becomes the daily battle. A battle to retake control, establish a government, and give people a safe place to live. A situation starting to show similarities is taking place right here in North America, as our neighboring country Mexico which we share a nearly 2,000…show more content…
The first being absolute disgust, the second, pure outrage. “How could this be allowed to continue even one more day?” I found myself asking. The darkest thought that any person could muster up, is likely found to be reality in Mexico. Website after website, story after story, and things only became darker. Ten year old’s birthday parties are crashed not by other mean ten year old’s, but by seven cartel members armed with fully automatic AK-47s. Imagine something like that happening in the US tomorrow, it would surely rock our nation as hard if not harder than the Sandy Hook tragedy last year. Elementary schools in Mexico are often targets of violence, ranging from mutilated heads put in trash bags for kids to find, to faces being sown onto soccer balls and placed on the field, just in time for…show more content…
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