If Disarmed Mexicans Can Do It…

…anyone can.

Mexican citizens in the states of Michoacan and Guerrero have had enough of the drug gangs and the police that are supporting them. In spite of the severe laws against firearms ownership in Mexico they have armed themselves and have begun to do something about the corruption and the violence.

Small groups of local vigilantes took up arms and joined forces to storm Paracuaro, headquarters of the Knights Templar gang, where they arrested police officers and seized control of the town in a blaze of gunfire.

They drove into the town in black armoured vehicles shouting ‘Don’t be frightened, we are vigilantes’, before expelling drugs traffickers, whom they accuse of kidnapping people and bribing them to make money. Several gun battles were reported, leaving at least one dead.

Police officers, whom the vigilantes accuse of being in league with the cash-rich drug gangs, were rounded up by machine-gun toting locals, along with others suspected of associating with gang members, and a checkpoint was set up at the entrance to Paracuaro.”

Insecurity dominates the lives of millions of Mexicans, for whom taking the law into their own hands has become the only option. Drugs cartels make millions of dollars producing and selling drugs, so the land where they produce opium poppies and marijuana is highly prized and often fought over.”

The people of the United States are right now doing what Mexican citizens have been doing for a long time. They are stockpiling arms and ammunition against a time when they will not be able to get them. As you can see from the images many have no more than a single-shot shotgun or a .22 rifle. That looks like it is changing, though, as they disarm the crooked police.

Once again, this comes from a foreign source – the UK Daily Mail