Mexico may very well be more dangerous than Iraq right now.
I think if I lived there I would buy some automatic weapons and make sure even my Mother practiced with them every month or so.
Really, what a shithole. And the funny thing is, these cartels make videos of them decapitating people, cutting throats, cutting off dicks of people hanging upside down, etc. and then distribute the videos around. But when someone else makes a blog about the videos they've seen, they are now being hunted down. Go figure.
It's nearly impossible for a Mexican citizen to legally own a firearm.