We have friends and acquaintances who travel to the resort areas of Mexico frequently to vacation and they claim that they have witnessed little or no cartel violence. In fact, some of them have told me they believe that these parts of Mexico are less dangerous than most parts of the U.S.A. What I will say is this: from a statistical perspective, they may be correct. However, it only takes one errant round to end a life and (curse my preservationist personality), I won't be planning on spending any time south of the border soon.