Krupption

Media are reporting (or blaming -- take your pick), the US is significantly responsible for the drug wars in Mexico, to the extent, anyway, that the wars are fought with US-sourced arms.

American gun sellers supply the cartels with 95 to 100 percent of their guns, according to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Back in his impressionable youth, which happened long before his impressionable oldth, Guambat read with amazed outrage a book called, The Arms of Krupp.

Today Krupp makes coffee pots and heavier industrial products, but for centuries the House of Krupp armed German Princes, Kings, Kaisers and Fuhrer.

There may not be a House of Arms in the US today, but there is certainly some form of Krupption.

Despite Slump, U.S. Role as Top Arms Supplier Grows

Despite a recession that knocked down global arms sales last year, the United States expanded its role as the world’s leading weapons supplier, increasing its share to more than two-thirds of all foreign armaments deals, according to a new Congressional study.

The annual report was produced by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, a division of the Library of Congress. Regarded as the most detailed collection of unclassified global arms sales data available to the general public, it was delivered to the House and Senate on Friday