BLAME MEXICO FOR RAMPANT SLAYINGS

Victor Gonzales (Jan. 25 letter) attributes killings in Juarez to the
easiness in buying weapons and ammunition in the United States, plus
not identifying and arresting people selling these weapons.

Gonzalez points to Fort Hood and Columbine as examples in controlling
sales of military-type weapons.

In the Fort Hood and Columbine murders, three persons were responsible
for the atrocious killings. Fort Hood was a murder with jihadist
ideology. Columbine's atrocity was committed by two crazy murderers
with personal radical ideas to the point of suicide.

The 4,000-plus persons murdered in Juarez in the last 25 months goes
beyond buying assault weapons and ammunition, and drug demand in the
U.S.

What really should be sickening is Mexico's long history and blind
eyes to corruption at the highest, middle and lowest levels of
government where your "golden rule of economics" has flagrantly been
seen for years, especially in the drug business.

Mexico now has a president who wants to eliminate this corruption. He
has opened the hornets' nest at its highest level. The cartel families
want business as usual.

Count the 60-plus journalists and reporters who have been murdered for
exposing corruption. That's what is sickening and sad.

Jesus Manuel Valenzuela

Anthony, N.M.