[TigersEye]

Those weapons are essentially owned by the ruling class as drug lords don't belong to the peasant class and get protection from the only other armed Mexicans, the Federales. There are millions of peasants in Mexico, far outweighing any class divisions that have ever existed in this country. Freed blacks in the south immediately following the Civil War had more political, economic and social clout than these people do.

[DumpsterDiver]

ping for later reading

[FITZ]

They could get guns in the US easily enough --- they passively leave their homeland but they don't get an attitude of fighting for it, liberating it. I think some may in the near future --if the borders are ever closed. Plus I think there are at least some Mexicans who don't want to give up their own lands to become some meek gardeners for Americans.