We can thank the ATF for sending and losing track of thousands of weapons for that, the School of Americas for training the Zetas gang and the schizoid drug control policies of USA that make the business work. For the gun dealership part, you can buy them in most army's quarters, you don't need to go to Mexico City to buy a gun.

They will have the same legal framework about guns we have in "democratic" Mexico, but with the added benefit that Venezuela doesn't share the border with the USA. Most people here forget that in the underworld guns together with drugs are used as currency. As long gun ownership is made easy enough for law abiding citizens, regardless of their political leaning this law will not be a problem.

1.- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristero_War

2.- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francoist_Spain

3.- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Army

4.- http://www.cfr.org/terrorist-organizations/northern-ireland-loyalist-paramilitaries-uk-extremists/p9274

And for the support for this morons in modern times, I can only say that the current president of Mexico is the son of a cristero courier founder of a political party that in WWII was close to Nazi Germany, and also supported by a catholic extremist organization called "El Yunque", "The Anvil" with strong presence in Mexico and Spain. Their predecessors under the MURO banner made several terrorist attacks in Mexico in the late 1960's and 1970's. The movie "La Cristiada", "For Greater Glory" is only a propaganda piece that whitewashes the crimes and murders that these bastards made in 1920's with the explicit support of the Pope. Now it is used for stupid statements like this:
CRISTIADA - Film on the Brutal Liberal-Masonic Persecution Against the Faith of the Mexican People

On reality, the Cristero war had a strong religious basis but it had also a very strong economic component since it was a landowner's war against land reform, and used the ignorant masses as pawns to protect their economic interests. In their ignorance Cristero's killed protestants and jews for the crime of not being catholic and murdered or mutilated thousands of teachers and burned dozens of schools. The increasing power of the heirs of these loons in Mexico is what made me to stop attending Mass and stop calling myself a catholic.

Well, a pair of attacks that have left more than 300 casualties in a country with 12 times less population than the USA that already have had several times more war dead in the last 12 years than the USA in 9/11, certainly it does make it comparable to 9/11 up to a point, but the best USA's analogy in my opinion is to compare this versus the Columbine massacre that was rightfully covered in Slashdot.

I'm from Mexico and really hate this SOBs. The bad security situation is already a cause of brain drain and now this bunch of stupid morons are targeting the only scientists that we have that can engage in high level research and are almost our only hope to became a developed nation. I'm tempted to wish that they end caught in the paws of the Zetas or any drug cartel, so they will know what is to be in a poorly thought state of anarchy.

In Mexico currently in theaters there is a picture called "La Cristiada" english name "For Greater Glory" about the religious civil war that ran intermittently from 1926 to 1937. Aside being a whitewash for those mexican taliban, these bastards, specially in the 30's engaged in a campaign to mutilate and murder school teachers. The most egregious example that I remember that happened in a town close to the place I was born in that the "Cristeros" gang raped and mutilated a female teacher, Maria R. Murillo, for the supposed crimes of being protestant and communist, when in reality she was catholic. They murdered more than 200 teachers, cut the ears and noses from many, many more and burned dozens of schools. My grandmother, together with her father and brothers had several skirmishes with them. They killed protestant, atheist and jews equally, had a little bit more compunction when they murdered catholics, but not much since "they were not pious enough". The remnants of cristeros were a source of concern in Mexico in WWII because many of them were collaborators of the european Axis powers.

The quote is from the admonishment that gave catholic priests to parents at the time.

The source of the drink of gods, the currency of ancient mayan people now used for making cookies. This is why the human world will be destroyed, we are deliciously cursed.

I googled for the press release but didn't find it, but I'm pretty shure that they planned to expand in Yokohama, Shinagawa and Chiba. Certainly, Kanagawa is not part of Tokyo in any sense, but I think we both can agree that despite the political boundaries of the different prefectures, the build up area from Chiba to Yokohama at the other side of Tokyo bay is practically continuous.

On the other hand, TEPCO had so many chances, so many time to avoid this disaster that is amazing that their managers did't get charged for their criminal negligence. I expect such brazen, shameless display of impunity in my country, Mexico, or any third world place, but in a first world, supposedly democratic country like Japan is incredible. I work for the state owned electric company, and, despite the high level corruption cases that have happened in our company, we do our best to keep the safety of our installations. The energy business is not only that, we always have the safety and welfare of our customers in our hands, more so in the case of nuclear power plants; to do a sloppy job is not an option here.

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Thank you for the links. I read the english version of TEPCO's web site. My japanese, despite the nickname, is good only to the 4th of 5 levels of japanese.

I remember a press release in mid-late 2011 that they planned to expand capacity in Chiba and Yokohama, that in practical terms are part of Tokyo. That was the main source of my comment. The expansion of capacity, according to this links:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/torikumi/thermal/popup_02.html
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/torikumi/thermal/popup_03.html

comes from the restart of an older big power plant in Yokosuka and the expansion of capacity in Chiba and other places. The bad news comes from the installation of 187 diesel units that will only provide 1,071.5 MW. This is barely above the output of the 2 smallest nuclear power generation units in Japan. Still, I think it would be foolish to try to extend the service time of the older, small nuclear units. Fukushima Daiichi could have been a far less serious accident if Unit 1 didn't got a license to continue in service. Not only because that would have been a one more unit less in service at the time of the accident, but because the explosion of Unit 1 hampered the efforts to put under control Units 2 and 3. For such small units, is not worth the risk.

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TEPCO is building new gas power plants INSIDE Tokyo Metropolitan area to make up for the lost capacity of the nuclear plants and canceled plans to decommission older plants that are not enough efficient, or that are in other populated areas. Even Roppongi Hills have their power plants running full time. Gas burns way cleaner than coal but still you have combustion gases going out. Maybe those "environmentalists" learnt how to make photosynthesis because for the rest of the population of Tokyo this means lower air quality everyday, all the time.