American guns are causing death and destruction in Mexico, writes Jose V. Borjon.
A boy pauses as he speaks next to the coffins of Dawna Ray Langford, 43, and her sons Trevor, 11, and Rogan, 2, who were killed by drug cartel gunmen, during the funeral at a family cemetery in La Mora, Sonora state, Mexico, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. Three women and six of their children, all members of the extended LeBaron family, died when they were gunned down in an attack while traveling along Mexico's Chihuahua and Sonora state border.
In the lawsuit, Mexico has claimed that the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act — a 2005 law designed to shield gun manufacturers from lawsuits— does not apply in this case because it doesn’t have extraterritorial effects. The harm occurred in Mexican territory. Although the government of Mexico is requesting an economic compensation for the damages that it has suffered, the main purpose is to move the gun industry to adopt measures of autoregulation to prevent and combat the illicit market of weapons, and thus reduce the destructive power of criminal organizations in my country.from state attorneys general and U.S. civil society, who see in it an opportunity to regulate how firearms are bought and sold in the country.
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