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4 December 2008

Where’s General Santa Ana when we need him?

From “A Global CIty on the Rise” (a Houston blog):

Houston has quietly become one of the top weapon sources for Mexican drug cartels according to federal law enforcement officials. Houston has numerous gun shops and is a good location, close to the border, for bring firearms into Mexico. An estimated 90 percent of some 27,000 weapons taken from stash houses or recovered on crime scenes from the past two years are said to have come from the U.S.

These are the issues that cause Houston much grief and concern and also give them a bad name. They are the types of problems that all global cities face but the global cities that stand alone on top are the cities that take these problems head on. Houston has to find solutions to stop so many weapons from going into Mexico and causing many problems and unnecessary deaths.

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