A new report from the BBC on simultaneous police raids in Ireland and Spain against an Irish criminal syndicate called the Hutch organization mentions in passing that a lengthy war between the crew and their rivals in the drug business, the Kinahan Cartel, has left 18 dead since it began in 2015.
Seems kind of low, right? Like not even by the standards of a halfway decent crime action movie where 18 getting killed in two hours better be made up in other qualities like the script and production value, but by the standards of Mexican cartel wars where 18 dead is either a busy half hour or an extremely slow weeknight. Yeah, of course right here this is the natural upshot to Irish/European gun control laws and an obvious argument in favor of the US moving closer to them.
That aside, we’re still puzzled as to why the gangsters don’t at least fatally stab, bludgeon, or strangle each other more often. Are they just (relatively) more polite and civil to each other?