Well, it would appear that the MSM has finally decided to spread the blame around a little. The LA Dog Trainer had this piece in yesterday’s issue:
Drug cartels’ new weaponry means war
Narcotics traffickers are acquiring firepower more appropriate to an army — including grenade launchers and anti-tank rockets — and the police are feeling outgunned.
By Ken Ellingwood and Tracy Wilkinson
5:53 PM PDT, March 13, 2009Reporting from Zihuatanejo, Mexico, and Mexico City — It was a brazen assault, not just because it targeted the city’s police station, but for the choice of weapon: grenades.
The Feb. 21 attack on police headquarters in coastal Zihuatanejo, which injured four people, fit a disturbing trend of Mexico’s drug wars. Traffickers have escalated their arms race, acquiring military-grade weapons, including hand grenades, grenade launchers, armor-piercing munitions and antitank rockets with firepower far beyond the assault rifles and pistols that have dominated their arsenals.
Apparently “assault rifles and pistols” are a ‘gateway drug’ to more powerful weaponry!
But here’s the kicker:
Most of these weapons are being smuggled from Central American countries or by sea, eluding U.S. and Mexican monitors who are focused on the smuggling of semiauto- matic and conventional weapons purchased from dealers in the U.S. border states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.
The proliferation of heavier armaments points to a menacing new stage in the Mexican government’s 2-year-old war against drug organizations, which are evolving into a more militarized force prepared to take on Mexican army troops, deployed by the thousands, as well as to attack each other.
These groups appear to be taking advantage of a robust global black market and porous borders, especially between Mexico and Guatemala. Some of the weapons are left over from the wars that the United States helped fight in Central America, U.S. officials said.
Yes, the “lax gun laws” in the United States were responsible for the (illegal drug) cartels’ armories, and by passing new gun control laws we were going to be able to NIP. IT. IN. THE. BUD! (So to speak.)
But instead, apparently, these scofflaws are buying military hardware from OTHER COUNTRIES.
And it’s STILL the fault of the United States!
Ah, I love the Blame America First, Last, and Always crowd!