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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

Isn't it odd that Mexican criminals still have access to his kind of hardware, despite strict Mexican gun-control laws? Take a lesson from them, anti-gun activists. Economic difficulties are the prime cause of gun violence, not the availability of guns. Perhaps you should focus your efforts on the disease rather than the symptoms.

I was a little surprised as to the source of the guns, though.

Pastor and Hakim note that the United States helps fuel the violence, not only by providing a ready market for illegal drugs, but also by supplying the vast majority of weapons used by drug gangs.
Pastor says there are at least 6,600 U.S. gun shops within 100 miles of the Mexican border and more than 90 percent of weapons in Mexico come from the United States.
And it's not just handguns. Drug traffickers used a bazooka in Tuesday's shootout with federal police and army soldiers in Reynosa, Mexico, across the border from McAllen, Texas.
"The drug gangs are better equipped than the army," Hakim said.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americ...nce/index.html