13 recovering patients were gunned down at a rehab facility in Tijuana, Mexico late Sunday. The 13 victims were asked to lie on the floor where they were then showered with bullets. This is one of the many gang attacks on recovering addicts. However, it was the first one that occured at this privately run rehab center. The number of deaths has not yet been confirmed but police at the scene say there were at least 10 deaths. The police haven't found the motive for this yet but other shootings like this one have been aimed to attack rival gang members.
The drug related violence that occurs in Mexico, or any place for that matter, seems to be happening more and more and it is incredibly sad. It is especially sad because these people were slowly but surely trying to turn their lives around by getting help for their various addictions but the situations they made in the past came back to haunt them. The kind of environment that had once surrounded them was brought back to the fore-fronts when people who they were enemies with in the past from being in gangs or drug related aquaintances came back to get revenge. I wish people would see these kinds of things happening so they would realize that the kind of life decisions you make, even if at one point you turn your life around, can come back to bite you. If people realized this I think they would be more strong about stearing clear of getting into drugs and gangs and really anything else that doesn't have a positive impact on their life. I know pot doesn't seem like a big deal to many people when we are in this point in our lives, seniors in highschool. But for some it can be the gateway into a world full of drugs, more powerful and damaging drugs which like in the case above, can lead anyone into some pretty terrible circumstances.
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