In Mexico, only one gun store but no dearth of violence
29th December 2010
In all of Mexico, there is only one gun store. The shop, known officially as the Directorate of Arms and Munitions Sales, is operated by the Mexican military. The clerks wear pressed green camouflage. They are soldiers.
The only gun store in Mexico is not very busy.
Well, duh. When guns are illegal, only crooks have guns, and they don’t buy them; they steal them (that’s why they’re called crooks).
Mexico has some of the toughest gun-control laws in the world, a matter of pride for the nation’s citizens. Yet Mexico is awash in weapons.
Just like D.C. and New York City and Chicago and ….
Asked whether Mexico’s gun-control laws were working, Mendoza said, “Ask the criminals.”
Heh.