Last week brought us more bad, sad news south of the border and only got worse at the start of this week. Since the start of Mexico’s official war against the drug cartels began in December 2006, more than 350,000 homicides have been reported, while the government reports the disappearance of more than 85,000 people. (Source: Advocacy for Human Rights in the Americas.)That’s an average annual Mexican murder rate of 31,545 people.As a comparison, the U.S. averages about 24,000 murders per year. (Source: CDC.)The disparity grows even more startling when one considers that the U.S. population is almost three times ...