Mexico Scapegoats American Gunmakers for Its Crime Crisis

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : The bipartisan Congress, with the support of the Department of Defense -- which recognized the national security threat posed by a depleted firearms industry -- halted the abusive suits by enacting the liability protection law.
50% : The Mexican government's allegations, however, run head-on into the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.
42% : The bipartisan filibuster-proof majority in Congress who passed the law recognized that "The possibility of imposing liability on an entire industry for harm that is solely caused by others is an abuse of the legal system, erodes public confidence in our Nation's laws,
41% : In a case to be argued on Tuesday before the Supreme Court, the Mexican government is suing American firearm manufacturers over cartel violence south of the border. Mexican drug cartels run rampant in Mexico, controlling large segments of Mexico's population, territory, and economy through brutal violence and intimidation.
34% : These violations include "unlawful or arbitrary killings by police, military, and other governmental officials"; "forced disappearance by government agents"; "torture or cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment or punishment by security forces"; "arbitrary arrest or detention"; and "serious acts of government corruption," among others.

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