There are nearly 7,000 gun shops along the southern U.S. border, about three for every mile. They sell thousands of hand grenades, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, AK-47s, and "cop killer" guns and bullets that cut through Kevlar body armor. The weapons quickly flow south, again with barely a nod from U.S. Border Patrol. [More]Right. Mexico is our fault.
Hey, don't forget those damned American gun shows.
And who is the expert we must heed?
Shannon O'Neil is Douglas Dillon fellow for Latin America studies at the Council on Foreign Relations...That ain't all she is.
[Via John Richardson]