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Originally Posted by fatbuckRTO
I would direct you to exhibit A, MS-13:
MS-13 members were recruited by Mexican cartels because of their brutality. The drug trade didn't make them violent, their violence got them a place in the drug trade. They and other gangs like them were essentially born from illegal immigration and the tendency of illegal immigrants to seek their own justice apart from legal authorities.
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Large, well-organized gangs like MS-13 wouldn't exist if illegal trades such as the drug trade didn't exist. Instead, gangs would just stay small and local, i.e. simply for the purpose of brotherhood or for protecting their rinky-dink neighborhood.