A highly recommended read: "An American Gun in Mexico," Wall Street Journal, May 21, 2011. The pieces demonstrates the extraordinarily thin line that exists between gun smugglers, gun dealers, and federal gun agents, in the war in Mexico that has left an estimated 40,000 dead. More this week at La Plaza.
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