Instead of looking to blame the problems in US society to the political scapegoat – Mexico, both Ann Coulter and Donald Trump should focus inward in order to understand the real problems that face the nation. The headlines that the political rhetoric creates focuses on a problem that does not exist. Mexico is neither the source of danger nor the source of terrorism to the United States. As a matter of fact, there has not been a single incident of a mass murderer in the United States that has originated from Mexico or is a Mexican.
Mexico is no more a danger to the United States then England is and yet the political rhetoric tries to make it so. The reality is that the Canadian border has been proven more dangerous than the US-Mexico border when it comes to terrorism. What is inconveniently ignored by individuals like Ann Coulter and Donald Trump is that the real danger to US citizens lies inward, in their own country, not from Mexico or by Mexicans.
Take a look at the following 49 (13 & 14 include two) mass murderers who committed their crimes in the United States. As you can see, you cannot find a single Mexican citizen. As a matter of fact, not one of these mass murderers have any connection to Mexico.
1. Aaron Alexis (Washington Navy Yard, Washington DC) September 16, 2013: killed 13 and wounded 3
2. Larry Gene Ashbrook (Fort Worth, Texas) September 15, 1999: killed 7 and wounded 7
3. George Banks (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) September 25, 1982: killed 13 and wounded 1
4. Mark Orrin Barton (Atlanta, Georgia) July 29, 1999: killed 9 and wounded 12
5. Carl Robert Brown (Miami, Florida) August 20, 1982: killed 8 and wounded 3
6. Seung-Hui Cho (Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia) April 16, 2007: killed 32 and wounded 17
7. Scott Evans Dekraai (Seal Beach, California) October 12, 2011: killed 8 and wounded 1
8. Andrew Engeldinger (Minneapolis, Minnesota) September 28, 2012: killed 6 and wounded 2
9. Colin Ferguson (Garden City, New York) December 7, 1993: killed 6 and wounded 19
10. Gian Luigi Ferri (San Francisco, California) July 1, 1993: killed 8 and wounded 6
11. Robert S. Flores (Tucson, Arizona) October 28, 2002: killed 3
12. One L. Goh (Oakland, California) April 2, 2012: killed 7 and wounded 3
13. Andrew Golden and Mitchell Johnson (Jonesboro, Arkansas) March 24, 1998: killed 5 and wounded 10
14. Eric Harris and Dyland Klebold (Columbine, Colorado) April 20, 1999: killed 13 and wounded 24
15. Nidal Malik Hasan (Fort Hood, Texas) November 5, 2009: killed 13 and wounded 32
16. Ratcliffe Haughton (Brookfield, Wisconsin) October 21, 2012: killed 3 and wounded 4
17. Robert Hawkins (Omaha, Nebraska) December 5, 2007: killed 8 and wounded 4
18. George Jo Hennard (Killeen, Texas) October 16, 1991: killed 22 and wounded 20
19. James Holmes (Aurora, Colorado) July 20, 2012: killed 12 and wounded 58
20. Eric Houston (Olivehurst, California) May 1, 1992: killed 4 and wounded 10
21. James Oliver Huberty (San Ysidro, California) July 18, 1984: killed 21 and wounded 19
22. Adam Lanza (Sandy Hook Elementary, Newton, Connecticut) December 14, 2012: killed 27 and wounded 1
23. Jared Lee Loughner (Tucson, Arizona) January 8, 2011: killed 6 and wounded 11
24. Gang Lu (Iowa City, Iowa) November 1, 1991: killed 4 and wounded 2
25. Ivan Lopez (Ft. Hood, Texas) April 2, 2014: killed 3 and wounded 16
26. Steven Kazmierczak (Dekalb, Illinois) February 14, 2008: killed 5 and wounded 16
27. Michael McDermott (Wakefield, Massachusetts) December 26, 2000: killed 7
28. Michael Kenneth McLendon (Geneva County, Alabama) March 10, 2009: killed 10
29. Wade Michael Page (Oak Creek, Wisconsin) August 5, 2012: killed 6 and wounded 3
30. James E. Pough (Jacksonville, Florida) June 18, 1990: killed 10 and wounded 4
31. Patrick Edward Purdy (Stockton, California) January 17, 1989: killed 5 and wounded 29
32. Dylann Roof (Charleston, South Carolina) June 17, 2015: killed 9
33. Charles Carl Roberts IV (Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania) October 2, 2006: killed 5 and wounded 5
34. Eliot Rodger (Isla Vista, California) May 23, 2014: killed 7 and wounded 7
35. Patrick Henry Sherrill (Edmond, Oklahoma) August 20, 1986: killed 14 and wounded 6
36. Robert Kenneth Stewart (Carthage, North Carolina) March 29, 2009: killed 8 and wounded 1
37. Christopher Bryan Speight (Appomattox, Virginia) January 17 and 19, 2010: killed 8
38. Sulejman Talovic (Salt Lake City, Utah) February 12, 2007: killed 5 and wounded 4
39. Omar S. Thornton (Manchester, Connecticut) August 3, 2010 killed 8 and wounded 2
40. Byran Uyesugi (Honolulu, Hawaii) November 2, 1999: killed 7
41. Jeffrey Weise (Red Lake Indian Reservation, Minnesota) March 21, 2005: killed 9 and wounded 7
42. Joseph T. Wesbecker (Louisville, Kentucky) September 14, 1989: killed 8 and wounded 12
43. Charles Joseph Whitman (Austin, Texas) August 1, 1966: killed 16 and wounded 32
44. Charles Andrew Williams (Santee, California) March 15, 2001: killed 2 and wounded 13
45. Doug Williams (Meridian, Mississippi) July 8, 2003: killed 5 and wounded 9
46. Jiverly Antares Wong aka Jiverly Voong (Binghamton, New York) April 3, 2009: killed 13 and wounded
47. John Zawahri (Santa Monica, California) June 7, 2013: killed 5
Ann Coulter recently stated that US citizens are more likely to die at the hands of a Mexican then an Islamic terrorist. She forgot to mention that the evidence clearly indicates that a US citizen is more likely to die from a US citizen then from a Mexican citizen.
Donald Trump, not wanting to be left behind, stated that Mexicans are “bringing crime” and are “rapists.” At least Trump did not equate Mexicans to terrorists but Trump also forgot the inconvenient facts that some US citizens are mass murderers intent on killing individuals that share Trump’s citizenship. This is just another inconvenient fact that individuals like Ann Coulter and Donald Trump like to ignore for their political rhetoric.
Of the 49 mass murderers I listed, not one is from Mexico. This is just another inconvenient fact glossed over by the political rhetoric that tries to make Mexico the scapegoat of all that is bad in the country.