Good News for Southwestern Virginia

What's the good news in this alarming story?

http://congressmantomtancredo.com/dea-boss-mexican-drug-cartels-are-so-deeply-embedded-in-chicago-we-have-to-operate-like-were-on-the-border/

Check out the map, fellow Virginians. Although drug traffickers creep around everywhere and can pop up anywhere, this map shows that we property-protecting, foreigner-distrusting, right-wing gun nuts are for the most part forcing the Mexicans to go through more left-wing states to deliver illegal drugs to D.C. Hurray for us. Long may this desirable state of affairs continue.

Of course, the price of liberty and other good things is vigilance. You know the criminals saw this map. You know the police did. More attention is going to be directed to the routes the drug traffickers have been preferring. So we are going to have to be vigilant, too, to preserve the blessings we currently enjoy.

Know your neighbors, Gentle Readers. Blaming Mexico is not the problem--druglords can afford to hire any number of local "mules" to do the dirty work for them. Many legal immigrants from Mexico are hardworking and law-abiding; some lifelong local residents are neither. Keeping property in families is generally a good way to preserve the quality of the neighborhood, but no system is perfect. Beware of new money, of an unhealthy interest in gun control, and of any kind of tolerance for the idea that the consciousness of able-bodied people needs any chemical alteration. Any of these things is more likely to be a tip-off than a Spanish family name is.

Walk your property. Watch your fences. If you see something the police want to know about, be the first to let them know. There is a lot of personal safety value in numbers, in looking harmless, in speaking peaceably, as well as in cell phones and weapons...but there is a lot of statewide safety value in the fact that we've kept the legal right to protect our property by any means necessary, and the scum don't know which of us have guns.