Editor:
One of the mythologies of the Mexican –American Drug War is that the United States supplies guns and ammunition to the Mexican drug cartels. 
And it is this, along with an insatiable appetite for drugs, that fuels the problem. In the following breakdown, among many other things that I find interesting, is the Chinese involvement. You know, the people we are renting America from.
There’s a lot of mis-information on this and it certainly affects us on the border.
Especially when the issue is politicized and used as a club to beat us into gun control. As is widley known, guns are very restricted in Mexico yet gun crimes there are amongst the higest in the world.
This is from Stratfor Global Intelligence:
To really understand Mexico’s gun problem, however, it is necessary to recognize that the same economic law of supply and demand that fuels drug smuggling into the United States also fuels gun smuggling into Mexico. Black-market guns in Mexico can fetch up to 300 percent of their normal purchase price — a profit margin rivaling the narcotics the cartels sell. Even if it were somehow possible to hermetically seal the U.S.-Mexico border and shut off all the guns coming from the United States, the cartels would still be able to obtain weapons elsewhere — just as narcotics would continue to flow into the United States from other places. The United States does provide cheap and easy access to certain types of weapons and ammunition, but as demonstrated by groups such as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, weapons can be easily obtained from other sources via the black arms market — albeit at a higher price.
Read more: Mexico’s Gun Supply and the 90 Percent Myth
