FRONT PAGE: "U.S. Stymied as Guns Flow to Mexican Cartels," by James C. McKinley Jr., New York Times, 15 April 2009.

We supply the demand for drugs and we meet the demand for guns from the drug cartels.

When the border states bitch about being on the front lines, we have to remember that they're also the essential arms merchants in this conflict. Houston alone has 1,500 (!) licensed gun dealers that are "easily accessible to Mexico."