Poll: Public Views on Mexico's Drug Violence

Via Rasmussen:

Just 30% of U.S. voters say drug users in the United States are more to blame for growing drug violence in Mexico than the drug producers themselves.

Fifty-six percent (56%) say the Mexican drug producers are more to blame for the tide of violence that threatens to cross into the United States, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

Seventy percent (70%) of voters say restricting gun sales in the United States will not reduce drug-related violence in Mexico, but 20% take the opposite view...

One-third of voters (33%) describe Mexico as an ally of the United States, while just eight percent (8%) view the southern neighbor as an enemy. Fifty-six percent (56%) say Mexico is somewhere in between an ally and an enemy.