Mexico has no redeeming qualities.

Freepers, like any extremists, are always ready to generalize based on an anecdote that agrees with their worldview. In this example, an individual travels to Mexico, and gets mugged.

When you visit a nation of outlaws, don’t be surprised if you run into trouble.

Whoa. "Nation of outlaws." That actually sounds kinda badass...

"Weber said the “group hug,” his term for the event, will help heal his mental and emotional wounds."

Heaven forbid you should use this experience as a lesson to GET A GUN.

"It could have ended 100 different ways much worse.”

Yeah -- for the bad guys. Shoot a gun at my house with me and my loved ones inside and they would either be dead or still running.

In FreepWorld, all good guys carrying guns never have accidents, and have perfect aim. And all the people they kill are irredeemably evil. This is why Mexico - the nation of outlaws - should allow everyone to carry guns.

Would you like a side of "blame the victim" with your crazy?

I'm sorry, but I feel zero sympathy for this duck. It's guys like him who accepted the invasion in the first place. And he's either too stupid or venal to criticize Mexico and recognize it for what it is, so crap like this happens - crap that anyone else with half a brain already understood as being the reality there - but which he denies, or doesn't try to understand.

Yeah! He shoulda been killed! Woulda served him right! Speaking of blaming the victim...

I went to TJ about 15 years ago...It was nothing then and it’s still nothing. I will never spend a penny in that turd world country again.

Wow, AnglesCrestHighWay blamed the victim on an ENTIRE COUNTRY! I am in awe.

Finally, there are a whole bunch of people saying "never go to Mexico" and even more that have an anecdote to add to the fray, because the plural of anecdote is data. Unless you disagree with the conclusion then it's a "bad apple."

Yep. There was a guy in Texas who crossed the Border in his M.H. and had one round of ammo in it which he overlooked. He was senenced to years in Prison down there. It took months and hundreds of thousands of Dollars to get him out.
And now, he has a Felony on his record because of our Stupid Laws. So, due to having one bullet in a freakin’ Motorhome in Mexico, he is ineligible to own a firearm here in the U.S.
Thanks, Bush!

Yeah, that does suck. But I don't think Americans are being sent to jail him Mexico in droves. Seeing as they are kind of careful about the US as countries go.