Guns, greed

So here’s the story: Mexican drug gangs find “straw buyers” in the states, people who can buy guns legally for them.

As a result, all kinds of weapons used in Mexico’s increasingly gruesome gunplay and turf wars are being traced back to the US of A.

One such cog in the machine is Raul Alvarez, 28, of Laredo. He said he bought some guns legally and was test-firing them on a range. A stranger walked up and offered him $5,000 for the bunch.

Being greedy, and stupid, Alvarez agreed, saying, “I needed the money.”

That’s bad enough, but here comes the worse part.

When Alvarez was told that the guns were used in crimes in Mexico, he actually said, “I can’t read minds like a psychic. If I knew he was going to use guns to get me in trouble, I wouldn’t have sold them.”

Aaarrrggghhh!

What did he think a sleazeball at a gun range with a pocketful of cash was going to do with the shooters? Use them as paperweights in a church office?

If there’s a God in heaven and justice in the courts, Alibi Alvarez will spend the near future sleeping on a prison cot, taking group showers and eating baloney sandwiches … for breakfast, lunch and dinner.