"It's always too soon to talk about gun control"

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As Trump calls for a border wall to keep trouble out, illegal U.S. guns are fuelling violence in Mexico

The violent criminals that U.S. President Donald Trump frequently cites as the justification for a proposed border wall may, in fact, be getting their weapons from his own country.

According to Chelsea Parsons, a gun violence prevention researcher at the Center for American Progress. (So, not an unbiased source.)

However, it's easy to see that there's at least a loose correlation. Mexico has one legal source of guns, but their rates of gun violence have been increasing as it's become easier to buy guns in the USA.

And people are heading north to the USA because they're fleeing gun violence.

So, if the USA really wants to do something about stemming the tide of refugees, make it more difficult to export guns ... which practically means make it more difficult to obtain guns, because the guns that are being used in that violence (that people are fleeing) aren't crossing the border legally.