Mexican Drug Cartels Control The Republican Party In The U.S.
Why is the Republican Party in the U.S. so keen to eliminate any kind of limitations on guns of any sort? They would have you believe it's because of principle, based on the Second Amendment to the Constitution and its protection of gun ownership, but it's actually because there is a huge arms-for-drug-money trade between the U.S. and Mexico. Republicans and their heavily-armed allies in the NRA are making just too much money off of the trade. The trade is now so brisk that Republicans are effectively the puppets of the drug cartels and will adopt almost any position their masters dictate. Hence propositions like those of Texas Governor Rick Perry regarding sending U.S. troops into Mexico to chase phantom Zetas (and also incidentally better protect cross-border drugs/arms traffic from the Sinaloa Cartel's depredations).

Trouble is, this just might be a description of reality, and not a conspiracy theory at all.
(Perv With A Dog had his eyes pecked out by scrub jays on, Sat 3 Dec 2011, 0:42, 3 replies)

But if this is true...
Why do the cartel need the Sons of Anarchy?

Wait.

I think at least one of us is confusing fiction and reality, but my version has both an awesome cast and soundtrack, so it's all good.
(xaer0mancer, Sat 3 Dec 2011, 15:55, closed)

It also explains the pathetic attitude towards drug use in the US.
They know that prohibition doesn't work, but it does drive up the price of drugs so that the cartels make more money and the high cost of entry prevents other people entering the business and undercutting them.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Sat 3 Dec 2011, 16:04, closed)

This conveniently ignores the fact
that Americans have been strongly attached to their guns since they arrived on this continent. Guns are cool and fun as well as dangerous, and a society where their ownership is widespread might rationally choose not to let the state take them away. Even if there are unfortunate side effects.

I highly recommend a visit to the NRA (National Rifle Association) Museum in Northern Virginia. Love em or hate em, you will have a better understanding of gun owners and their politics.
(mortdubois lacks imagination, doesn't play well with others, Sun 4 Dec 2011, 12:33, closed)