Why not focus on Mexican cartel/police alliance instead of U.S. guns?

June 27, 10:09 AMGun Rights ExaminerDavid Codrea

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There's been a police sweep in Mexico. It's not what we ordinarily think of when we hear the term. From AFP:

A police chief and 91 officers were detained in a sweep on a city in central Mexico suspected of sheltering one of the country's most violent drug gangs, federal police said.

Who were they protecting? The Zetas.

Regular readers here remember them:

Information I have received from reliable sources says the Zeta criminal organization is stepping up its ruthlessness on our side of the border. Mules who if detected would previously abandon contraband they were smuggling, must now, under threat of death for failure, protect the drug shipments they are carrying rather than abandon them. To do this, they have been ordered to carry weapons.

This is what happens in an unchechecked "Only Ones" state.  AFP reminds us:

The original Zetas were elite Mexican Special Forces soldiers trained to find and detain drug lords. A group of deserters formed the group when they instead went to work for the drug lords in the late 1990s.

We're further informed:

In recent weeks, a dozen army soldiers and police officers have been arrested in at least four Mexican districts...

Who in their right mind believes Mexican police and military personnel rely on "straw purchasers" at U.S. gun shops and gun shows to obtain military-grade firepower? Who in their right mind does not believe these corrupt LEOs and soldiers haven't exploited their access to state-procured weapons--to the advantage of their drug cartel patrons?

Meanwhile, half a world away, another headline catches my eye:

U.S. Sends Weapons to Help Somali Government Repel Rebels Tied to Al-Qaeda

What could go wrong?

I can't wait for the predictable results from this one, the predictable blame that will be cast on "lax" American gun laws, and the predictable demand for more "common sense gun control".

Good grief.