Reply #103: Actually, I lay it at the feet of the US and Mexican governments

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The US government:

for handing out Soviet-bloc infantry weapons like they were AOL discs (for those of a certain age) back in the day to provide plausably deniable aid to various contras and paramilitaries- thanks, Ronnie!

Now, a lot of real-deal Kalashnikov Klones come from factories who don't ask too many questions of customers who pay
with hard cash- like, frinstance, drug cartels.

The Mexican government:

For letting all those military and police-only weapons they buy directly from the US manufacturers
grow legs and walk out of warehouses.

Or 'fall of the back of a truck', to put it another way.

Now, it wouldn't do at all for Sec. Clinton to tell MX Pres. Calderon that his government makes Chicago's look
like a Common Cause meet-and-greet.

So the two of them maintain the fiction that all those machine guns and rocket launchers the MX government
keeps seizing and displaying come from US gun shops and swap meets.

And if the preceding hasn't depressed you enough- the cartels would be very happy to supply some of the weapons discussed
to RW nutters (if the price was right, of course)