Why is it that not a single newspaper in the US has written about Mexico's gun laws- some of the most restrictive in the hemisphere. Apparently, drug lords and their minions can have all the weapons they want, play shoot em up on th e streets, murder the innocent, and the cops can shake you down whenever they need beer money, but if a citizen is caught with a gun of any kind, they get to go to jail.

Cute, huh? But let's don't report about that, fellows, let's write stories that somehow suggest that US gun laws are to blame for Mexico's violence, and that we'd all be better off if our gun laws were more like those in Mexico.

The reason gun control is such a hot topic for the last Americans who seem to care about liberty and the future of the US is, at its root,not just about guns or self defense. It is because of the enormous powers we would have to grant government to disarm the citizenry. I have never seen a government, anywhere, that I believe could or should be trusted with that kind of power. And I look at Mexico- one of my favorite countries, a place I know pretty well, and feel very connected to, and its gun laws are EXACTLY why I don't believe in gun control. Good people kept in poverty, rendered powerless by corruption, held up by criminals at every level, denied both the right of self defense and all the other basic human rights, and brother, those things are linked!! A government cannot keep a people in poverty, in an otherwise wealthy nation, force them to go north to another country and work as illegals just to feed their families, and then trust them with guns when the come back home!

I will never understand why intelligent American citizens who support civil liberties and freedom of the press, freedom of speech, all of that, are so blind when it comes to the Second Amendment. The same liberal citizen who will stand up to City Hall in a heartbeat, will fight for the rights of a homeless person abused by police, will fight for the essential separation of church and state that keeps our country free, will tell you, no arguments, no ifs nor ands or buts, that guns should be regulated or banned by the very same government they claim they don't trust with all their other liberties.

I don't get it, man.