United States Citizens Arming Mexican Drug Cartels

Many U.S. citizen's living in or near towns bordering Mexico may or may not be aware the persons supplying the guns and ammunition that fuel the ongoing "drug war" are in fact U.S. citizens.

According to a report written to Congress by the Government Accountability Office, "over 90 percent of the firearms seized in Mexico and traced over the last 3 years have come from the United States."

These U.S. citizens, called "straw pushers" are your everyday person.

Imagine: A single mother has just dropped her kids off at school, she then heads over to "Joe's Guns" a few miles away to check out the store.

While there,  makes friends with the man behind the counter who is selling the firearms and before leaving, makes an order for fifteen AK-47 semi-automatic weapons. Perfectly legal in Arizona and Texas, for anyone of age and able to pass a background check. In fact, in states that allow the purchase of semi-automatic weapons, only Maryland limits the number guns that someone can purchase at any given time.

So the woman than returns one weeks later and orders another fifteen AK-47's ... and so on and so on.

In return for the guns, she is compensated cash from a Mexican cartel operative, who can then use the ever so easy US-Mexico highway systems to transport the weapons futher South, into the hands of men accountable for an aproximate 28,000 deaths since 2009.

Is our society that money hungry that the average citizen is willing to not only support the murder of ten's of thousands but directly help the cause? Is our government too caught up in multiple overseas wars to focus on the real problems facing American's on a day-to-day basis? If you ask me, I say yes.