Hi Slag

'More crime goes on in just one major US city in a week than in the entire period of the westward expansion'

That is true. Many people thought that because the west was largely
wide open that the criminals from the east could get away with it in the west. And many tried but few were as successful as Hollywood would
have us all believe.

The way I read your comment is you feel that it is America's fault that
Mexican criminals are successful at selling drugs to addicts on this side of the border. And that all the money however obtained goes into Mexico to fuel the business. Is this correct?

Don